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A team who works in the space thinks it's sufficiently likely they are going to spend time working on it. These aren't a pack of losers off the street - these p
by danielmarkbruce 2y ago
A team who works in the space thinks it's sufficiently likely they are going to spend time working on it. These aren't a pack of losers off the street - these people have real options in life to do all kinds of interesting work.
There is no chance it has no chance.
- yencabulator 2y agoBut they've never demonstrated the operation working on an animal...
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoso what? "that's the way it's usually done" ?
- yencabulator 2y agoYes, for many reasons. What else were you expecting? It tends to be more a cost-effective way of using the research money, it's considered more ethical, it has less legal risk, and so on. If you're saying you want to perform a full-head transplant on humans without ever succeeding on apes, people would very rightly call you delusional.
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoHow about think instead. The amount of precaution required is a function of the risk and reward. That's a stupid analogy. The downside would be death.