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So basically we should leave the research to be done in China? If you get an important western institutions to decry this research as unethical it will just ha
by dsfyu404ed 8y ago
So basically we should leave the research to be done in China?
If you get an important western institutions to decry this research as unethical it will just happen elsewhere. This research could be very beneficial and could lead to extending the time window within which someone can be revived without becoming a vegetable after their heart stops pumping blood around. It makes sense to allow the research to continue where we at least have some control over it, especially considering that we are a long ways off from creating conscious brains in jars (or other suitable containers) which is approximately where most people seem to draw the ethics line.
- jacobush 8y agoThis... is not an excellent argument in itself. It can be used to justify anything.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoSo? We're not talking about selling administrative record keeping equipment to goose-stepping despots. We're talking about medical research that in the medium term seems likely to prevent people from dying. We're nowhere near growing self aware beings in a lab but people are acting like that's what we're doing. We're so very far from that that it makes no sense to hamper research. To put it in perspective, this is like restricting the sale of capacitors because someone built a small rail gun and you're worried they're gonna shoot down the ISS next week.
- jacobush 8y agoNow that is a proper argument and I will let other more informed people argue in this thread.