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I fully support this line of work. I hope all those behaviors which lead to significant harm are outlawed and all those behaviors that lead to good outcomes are

I fully support this line of work. I hope all those behaviors which lead to significant harm are outlawed and all those behaviors that lead to good outcomes are supported. Just like with every other technology in the history of humanity.

adolph 3y ago
>I hope all those behaviors which lead to significant harm are outlawed and all those behaviors that lead to good outcomes are supported. It seems very optimistic to think that humans can (a.) perform that at a germ cell level, and (b.) distinguish between moral and evolutionary goods (because they may be at odds) [0]. If the history of dog breeding is any example, quests for some perceived good lead to maladaptive features in other areas. I’m more sanguine about possibilities in altering expression of somatic cells like what octopuses do [1]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%... 1. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/octopuses-other-cephalopods-can-adjust-cold-editing-their-rna https://news.uchicago.edu/story/octopuses-other-cephalopods-...
almatabata 3y ago
A lot of behaviors can lead to good and bad outcomes. We give guns to policemen to protect citizen. They might also misuse it. We write rules that govern these behaviors to avoid or minimize the bad outcomes. In this scenario we already have a good idea of what people might do when given the chance if you look at science fiction. Instead of waiting for the technology to get ready we should really think hard on which aspect of this technology we want to adopt and which ones we want to ban. For example if you can scale this technology by not requiring women wombs, should we allow the government to grow an army of clones? Would these clones have the same right as normal citizen? We can allow individuals to have kids through this method while banning the government from misusing it (in theory).

adolph 3y ago

>I hope all those behaviors which lead to significant harm are outlawed and all those behaviors that lead to good outcomes are supported. It seems very optimistic to think that humans can (a.) perform that at a germ cell level, and (b.) distinguish between moral and evolutionary goods (because they may be at odds) [0]. If the history of dog breeding is any example, quests for some perceived good lead to maladaptive features in other areas. I’m more sanguine about possibilities in altering expression of somatic cells like what octopuses do [1]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%... 1. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/octopuses-other-cephalopods-can-adjust-cold-editing-their-rna https://news.uchicago.edu/story/octopuses-other-cephalopods-...

almatabata 3y ago

A lot of behaviors can lead to good and bad outcomes. We give guns to policemen to protect citizen. They might also misuse it. We write rules that govern these behaviors to avoid or minimize the bad outcomes. In this scenario we already have a good idea of what people might do when given the chance if you look at science fiction. Instead of waiting for the technology to get ready we should really think hard on which aspect of this technology we want to adopt and which ones we want to ban. For example if you can scale this technology by not requiring women wombs, should we allow the government to grow an army of clones? Would these clones have the same right as normal citizen? We can allow individuals to have kids through this method while banning the government from misusing it (in theory).