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What is your evidence that the post-WWII flavor of bioethics inhibits real progress? If that were true, why do we not see other systems leading?
by carbocation 8y ago
What is your evidence that the post-WWII flavor of bioethics inhibits real progress? If that were true, why do we not see other systems leading?
- jpgvm 8y agoWe do. In China. Not just in biology but also AI/ML. They are willing (and able) to do the things others find reprehensible. It's already apparent just how far ahead they are in the AI/ML field, I suspect biology/medicine will follow. It's a very real threat and believing that The West has a head start and is more intelligent/better funded/other excuse is not going to end well for us. China achieves goals though brute force with very little regard for ethics or norms.
- buboard 8y agoThe west has spent far more brainpower in making up bioethics regulations than actually talking about the procedures themselves. Cue the threads over here. Also note the differences in culture: the chinese parents consented to it. I m not sure how easy it would be to find this in the west.
- carbocation 8y agoThe unfamiliarity of random HN commenters with genetics is overwhelmingly clear, but that does not mean that geneticists in the US are not thinking about this.