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Unlikely to ever happen. The furthest I see it going would be something like curing some types of rare Mendelian diseases, at least for germ line editing. The
by pfisherman 4y ago
Unlikely to ever happen. The furthest I see it going would be something like curing some types of rare Mendelian diseases, at least for germ line editing.
The problems with “super” whatever is that (1) we really don’t understand biology or genetics all that well, (2) we can’t even agree on what traits like “intelligence” are, (3) we are too shortsighted to know what to optimize for on the timescale of multiple generations.