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New technologies face the same risk when unproven. Capitalism has a simple solution to that - people just stop buying them if they turn out to be worse than wha

New technologies face the same risk when unproven. Capitalism has a simple solution to that - people just stop buying them if they turn out to be worse than what was on offer before. In the future, genetic enhancements will be available in a regulated competitive marketplace, and the ones that have unforseen bad consequences will fall out of favour.

crististm 8y ago
Technology does not answer to questions about ethics. Technology dispenses with any value propositions. Capitalism doesn't either. Capitalism answers to profits and not necessarily to _everybody_'s profits.
- mantas 8y ago
  Technology doesn't have wide variance too. Thus it hinders natural selection.
  - crististm 8y ago
    How do you know your premise is true?
    - mantas 8y ago
      If gene A is applied artificially, it always gets applied. Or should we add rand() to ensure some sort of natural selection-like variance?
mantas 8y ago
What if some enhancement gets applied to (virtually) everybody and side effects are learned only when it's too late? Naturally there's a big, uncontrolled variety of possible changes and natural selection comes into play. Meanwhile gene editing is prone to become a monoculture.
crististm 8y ago
I have yet to see someone with a proven record of reading into the future.