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Rich people will find a way to use and experiment with this. They'll do it on a private island if they have to. Then dictators will be tempted to "build" bette
by tabtab 4y ago
Rich people will find a way to use and experiment with this. They'll do it on a private island if they have to.
Then dictators will be tempted to "build" better workers and soldiers to get an edge on "those pesky democracies". If they succeed and become a threat to other nations, those nations will feel obligated to follow suit. The cat's out of the bag. (I'll pre-order a second wanker.)
If nukes don't get you, AI will. If AI doesn't get you, genetically modified monsters will. If genetically modified monsters[1] don't get you, then rioters paranoid over the first 3 will get you. Enjoy every day like it's your last.
[1] Could be altered humans, altered viruses, altered bears, altered mash-ups of all 3, etc.
- goethes_kind 4y agoRich people (and not only them) already do much more than this. We all select the best mates we can get our hands on. The gain from this kind of gene editing is likely much smaller than simply having a bunch of kids with a very genetically fit individual, and that is exactly what rich people do. I also recall reading that some countries had strategies to foster interaction between very genetically fit individuals, beyond what would naturally happen by the general tendency of people to be attracted to others like them.