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CRISPR and other tools aren’t science fiction anymore. If the wealthy get there first, what happens to everyone else?

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[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

The will find a way to be even more inbred than they already are

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago
[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Once rich people gain any power or advantage they use it for themselves, often at the expense of others. Survival of the fittest. Another question is if they can effectively clone and gene edit themselves, will they have children with others at all or just make variants of themselves trying for perfection? If life extension technologies become viable, will they bother ,having kids or cloning themselves? These people are completely devoted to the satisfaction of their own egos, which controls them and they will redirect all resources toward their own interests. They are the absolute manifestation of selfishness and are the cautionary tale for why narcissism and egotism are a mental health disorder and not things we should let people run around with. Put them all in a psych ward.

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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Shhh!

You're not supposed to say the quiet part out loud!

Just keep pretending our societies are equitable.

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

It's a new class of DARWIN humans, since such manipulated beings usually have shorter life expectation.

[–] arararagi@ani.social 3 points 5 months ago

I don't think it's the eugenic stuff that's gonna take off, but fixing future developmental problems.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah it will be new class of morons that will buy out all the water and energy to feed their shiny computers so you can live in dark and starve to death.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

I still need to read Red Rising.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

No, your assumption is that there is an ideal DNA code when there isn't. They will still just be people like everyone else.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I wouldn't worry about it .... evolution is all about the survival of the luckiest and most fortunate

Sure it is survival of the fittest, strongest and most capable ... but often through earth's history .. survival is more often left to the survivors, the lucky few who were just fortunate to survive.

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

At least we will have better rich people to look at. The current oligarchy in the US looks like deep fried dog shit. Imbred looking ass...

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