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Super intelligent, immortal, and free of cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer, and MS.
by oldgradstudent 4y ago
Super intelligent, immortal, and free of cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer, and MS.
- ben_w 4y agoAnd with a single giant ear on their back. Don’t forget the giant ear. (Weirdly, just saw a breathless article talking about how 3D bioprinting obviates the use of rib cartilage that the human-ear-on-a-mouse 25 years ago was also supposed to end).
- Phrenzy 4y agoShh....! They can hear you!
- gwern 4y agoNot sure why you're skeptical. That ear is physically on the human woman: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/health/ear-transplant-3d-printer.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/health/ear-transplant-3d-... Even if it's rejected or otherwise fails later on, that's a long way from just-in-mice breathless talk.
- ben_w 4y agoIt’s not so much scepticism as cynicism; it works, what I think it doesn’t do is represent a radical (rather merely an incremental) improvement.