Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease : technology

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm actually pro genetic engineering for this usecase. By expanding our medicine, we created an evolutionary problem: Carriers of genetic diseases keep passing their genes, passing the defects further. This will result in more and more health issues unless faulty genes themselves are fixed

[–] 123@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

There are more capable, actual medical professionals that can advance this field in a non-wallstreet all eggs in one basket kind of way.

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[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Oh hell no, don't bring Jurassic Park to the real world, please.

(JP did this with dinos, but this is the exact thing that movie warned about, just in this case with humans instead of dinos)

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Altman finds a way...

[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Similarly, the type of things currently going on with AI, most notably Grok being in bed with the Military, are what Terminator warns about.

-sigh- Dystopian/post-apocalyptic fiction is not supposed to be an instruction manual, guys, it's supposed to be a warning.....

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

No no. Do it with dinos!

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 4 points 5 months ago

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...

[+] melfie@lemy.lol 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If that were the case, wouldn’t the ones who didn’t get the genetic engineering be far more likely to reproduce and stride along with natural selection? I have a hard time seeing that event ever happening, short of the human population en mass deciding to engineer every baby on the planet before a single generation of which could have lived life and been studied for its effects.

What I think is more likely as a great filter is humans eventually settling on the idea that organic matter is really terrible medium for life. So, something with much more longevity, strength, efficiency, and brain power gets synthesized and we move in. At a certain point, wouldn’t biological life die off because life tends to yield to its more evolved forms? If us meat bags had to compete, how could we?

and I think there are more interesting answers to the Fermi Paradox than the Great Filter. For example, the expansion of space not being something we can overcome in travel. Or, maybe the way we perceive space is just so anthropic—we’re making poor assumptions about other beings.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 points 5 months ago

This guy can.

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

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

As long as they wait until they’re 18.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Suspiciously all blonde haired and blue eyed. All with reduced intelligence unless you pay a lifelong subscription.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago

Wait a tic. I've seen this movie.

[–] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

This is how I find out that he's gay?

Well, good for him and his partner.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Know what? Fair. Good for them.

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