• KaChilde@sh.itjust.works
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    The ability to reduce diseases and disorders in newborns sounds wonderful, until you find out which techno-fascist is behind the movement.

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      The other issue I have is that this is an example of a recurring issue in which the tech obsessed ultra wealthy declare their plan to solve a problem for which a very straightforward policy solution already exists.

      We don’t need tech to extend lives or feed the hungry. We just need to remove the paywalls to existing resources.

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      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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        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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      Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel.

      We have enough data points to suggest that being gay doesn’t insulate you from being greedy and corrupt.

      That’s important, too.

      • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
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        Gay people are just as shitty as everyone else. They’re no better or no worse. They just have sex with people of the same gender.

        Who you want to fuck REALLY doesn’t matter, like, at all, imo, in the grand scheme of things.

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        We have a code of conduct training at work that includes and anti corruption segment (nothing weird, just stuff like “a vendor buying lunch at a sales meeting is fine, but no gifts or having lunch at extremely expensive places”, and “some places give small symbolic gifts around holidays, usually a pastry. That’s fine. Do not accept a $500 pastry”)

        A couple years ago they updated the module and the person engaging in non-obvious corrupt business practices became gay in passing. The overwhelming response by a lot of the company was “yay! We made it guys! They realized that we like bribes too! I feel so seen”.

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    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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    If it works as good as AI, people will be chronic liars, have multiple fingers, and be annoying attention whores always asking if they can “help” you.

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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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    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

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      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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    This guy can.

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