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> in the US you could imagine an insurance company that competed on lower premiums conditional upon certain gene edits being applied to covered children. On on
by chrisallenlane 9y ago
> in the US you could imagine an insurance company that competed on lower premiums conditional upon certain gene edits being applied to covered children.
On one hand, this sounds entirely economically reasonable (and even humanitarian).
On the other hand, I fear this would inevitably produce unintended consequences that would shape our society in distopian, sci-fi/horror-flavored ways.
I have no idea how it would actually shake out. Maybe I'm just being anti-intellectual here.
- candiodari 9y agoGiven the economics, I feel pretty confident predicting that these edits will be mandatory before most people on this site die.
- adrianN 9y agoAt least you'd probably have to pay a lot more of the bills if you chose not to have genetic problems corrected before birth.