• poopkins@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      It’s an interesting ethical debate.

      I have a hereditary condition which passes only by the X chromosome, so should I, as a man, abort a daughter? Because now the risk is too high and I’ve elected to simply not have children. It would be great if I could fix the single swapped base pair that would otherwise cause disfigurement and life-long health problems.

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        Yeah I’m always conflicted. Like eugenics is the end goal for these fascists but also… We should try to prevent hereditary defects rtct

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        1 month ago

        This is why billionaires should be kept away from sciences and tech but unfortunately they are all over it. The fact that these require lot of funding does not help.

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    1 month ago

    Anytime any non scientist wants to genetically engineer babies you should get very worried

    When crypto or ai bros want to do that get outright scared

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    This is the usual front to further develop “designer baby” tech (which we already have, it’s just the use is considered unethical). Mask investment as “saving the children” and altruistic to later flip the tech to billionaire friends so they can make little aryans on a d5 roll for a an AC of 1… Much like the open that turned for profit…

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    This guy can.

    You know, everybody makes a idiot of himself as best as he can, and this guy can.

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    If (and is a really, really big if) this open the door to a better understanding of this type of pathologies and a way to somewhat cure them, I would say that it would be for the better.

    But of course I am sure it will not end this way…