Interesting analysis, though personally, I am still not convinced that companies should be able to unilaterally (and irreversibly) change/update the human genome. But, it would be interesting to see this research continue in animals. E.g.
Provide evidence that they’ve made a “150 IQ” mouse or dog. What would a dog that’s 50% smarter than the average dog behave like? or 500% smarter? Would a dog that’s 10000% smarter than the average dog be able to learn, understand and “speak” in human languages?
Create 100s generations of these “gene updated” mice, dogs, cows, etc. as evidence that there are no “unexpected side effects”, etc. Doing these types of “experiments” on humans, without providing long (long) term studies of other mammals seems to be… unwise/unethical?
Humanity has collectively decided to roll the dice on creating digital gods we don’t understand and may not be able to control instead of waiting a few decades for the super geniuses to grow up.
But yeah, given this along with the long (long) term studies mentioned above, the whole topic does seem to be (likely) moot...
Interesting analysis, though personally, I am still not convinced that companies should be able to unilaterally (and irreversibly) change/update the human genome. But, it would be interesting to see this research continue in animals. E.g.
Provide evidence that they’ve made a “150 IQ” mouse or dog. What would a dog that’s 50% smarter than the average dog behave like? or 500% smarter? Would a dog that’s 10000% smarter than the average dog be able to learn, understand and “speak” in human languages?
Create 100s generations of these “gene updated” mice, dogs, cows, etc. as evidence that there are no “unexpected side effects”, etc. Doing these types of “experiments” on humans, without providing long (long) term studies of other mammals seems to be… unwise/unethical?
But yeah, given this along with the long (long) term studies mentioned above, the whole topic does seem to be (likely) moot...