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Maybe not. Because such as system, by design, would have to create a lot of common, shared infrastructure. Once you have centralized the ability to edit genes,
by outworlder 1y ago
Maybe not. Because such as system, by design, would have to create a lot of common, shared infrastructure.
Once you have centralized the ability to edit genes, most of that machinery can be repurposed for less 'profitable' endeavors.
A very crude comparison would be time sharing a radiotelescope. If you want to build one to run school experiments, it's prohibitive. But once you have one, you can use any spare capacity to allow for observations that would be impossible to justify economically.
- baggy_trough 1y agoIsn't that happening already, through progression in gene technologies?
- MichaelZuo 1y agoYeah humans can setup a radiotelescope time-sharing system. But chimpanzees can’t, regardless of how much effort they put in. So a time-sharing system 1 million times more complex cannot be created by people who are probably not even 1000x smarter than an average chimp.