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Is this a company and not a research lab doing this? What's the economic imperative for funding this?
by yewenjie 6mo ago
Is this a company and not a research lab doing this? What's the economic imperative for funding this?
- FrustratedMonky 6mo agoMaybe short term, pumping out chickens. For food. Long term, maybe chickens are just the test case and they will pump out human slaves. Replicants.
- vitally3643 6mo ago[flagged]
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- fragmede 6mo agoTo be fair, artificial womb technology would really mess with society.
- himata4113 6mo agoThat's very likely to be the future of the human race where governments produce, train and push out artificial humans like a factory. Well if we don't solve aging and robotics by then, then we'll probably just stop having babies altogether or at least not in a quantity that matters.
- oneshtein 6mo agoArtificial womb developed decade ago (2016): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_womb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_womb
- autoexec 6mo agoIt could end the abortion issue if fertilized eggs could be moved early enough. Any woman who didn't want a baby could have it transferred to an artificial womb and sign away all rights to/responsibility for it. Any father who wanted their child when the mother didn't could keep it. It could help premature infants too.
- FrustratedMonky 6mo ago"very stupid and uneducated thing to suggest" 1. Take a common trope in fiction and research for a hundred years. With long known commonly linked ramifications. 2. A company actually starts doing it. 3. Suggest a link 4. -> Call it Stupid. Yeah. Don't worry about it at all. Nothing to see here.
- stavros 6mo agoIf we wanted to pump out human slaves now, I don't think the main obstacle is that we can't find enough women to bear them.
- FrustratedMonky 6mo agoIf they are born of woman, they would be human. If they are made, we can re-label them as machines and give them lesser rights. And make ourselves feel better about treating them as lower class by some 'justification', like they don't have souls. Perhaps some gene editing to give them 'blue' skin, some non-historically-biased-color to identify them. Really. There are ton of books with these themes already. I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said, and now a company is doing it, so why am I getting downvoted.
- stavros 6mo agoYeah but there's also the book where we make people in a lab and they're great and everyone lives happily ever after forever. Don't cherry-pick your data.
- FrustratedMonky 6mo agoSo I'm not providing a good literary survey of books with similar tropes and providing some of the positive ones? There are literally half dozen very famous negative examples, but I didn't do good enough search to find a positive one? That would be like every comment on AI should include some example from The Culture Series as an example that all this AI stuff could great.
- jfengel 6mo agoThey're a foundation working on "de extinction". They want to hatch dodos.
- hypfer 6mo agoYes, yes. Dodos. The endgame of this is Dodos.
- dandellion 6mo agoYes, first they'll focus on normal dodos. Then, they'll try very large Dodos. After that, very, very ancient dodos. Followed by island dodos. Then they might set up a whole island that people can visit, full of all kinds of dodos. They'll do tours with self driving cars so people can see all the dodos from a safe distance.
- fontain 6mo agoScientific consensus is that dodos cannot open doors so it’ll be very safe as long as visitors stay in their cars.
- fragmede 6mo agoThey shall spare no expense.
- incognito124 6mo agoOne thing is for sure: they'll still be using a UNIX system
- lesuorac 6mo agoTbh, I kinda always assume they were going to pivot into designer kids as opposed to dinosaurs.
- Avicebron 6mo agoI'm holding out hope we can get the moa birds back in my lifetime.
- fontain 6mo agoA velociraptor skeleton is worth around $10 million. Hatch a few dozen per year and you’re making great money.
- onion2k 6mo ago[Colossal Biosciences] has raised over $600 million and carries a valuation exceeding $10 billion. You're not making a return on that from selling velocirator skeletons. Nor is that sort of money in dodos and maos. Human cloning on the other hand...
- fragmede 6mo agoIt's been a while since high school biology class, and I can't ask my sister right now, but I don't think humans are born in eggs. What does an artificial egg hatching chickens have to do with cloning humans?
- himata4113 6mo agoTechnically speaking, we could engineer it in a way where humans are born from eggs. It would just have to be a very big egg and would also have to continue growing in an incubator after hatching much like chickens rather than the standard womb senario. ... probably just easier to grow babies in a tube
- margalabargala 6mo agoArguably humans are born from large, soft-shelled, ambulatory eggs.
- NopIdoN 6mo agoewww eggs with legs
- stavros 6mo agoI mean, if you can make a velociraptor, the skeleton isn't the bit you'll make money on.