Fact: genetic diseases are stored in chromosomes, Fact: nobody exactly knows what percentage of intelligence is genetic and what is from education but ranges from 50:50 to 30-70. Genetic modification in humans or gene therapy would prevent horrible diseases such as cystic fybrosis, charcot-marie-tooth disease or other alteration from been passed onto your children. This guy is mixing superficial (and ridiculous stuff like being pretty as if there was a standard definition for that) with the real important ones. Of course it needs regulation, and of course it has it. It angers me a lot to see scientist manipulating the audience to share their personal opinion withoug explaining things properly.
Scientifically, the idea of “designer babies” is an amazing accomplishment. It’s an incredible fact that science has come far enough to design babies without disease, birth defects, unwanted genes, and much more. Ethically, it’s a little trickier. Genetically modified babies would have many differences from babies that have not been modified. For people who can’t afford genetically modified babies, or don’t want them for other reasons, the differences could seem like unfair advantages. Genetically modified babies have the opportunity to be healthier than normal babies, have a higher intelligence level, and have certain physical characteristics that have been deemed desirable. Lots of people are all for the idea of creating a new generation of people that are more physically, mentally, and overall enhanced. This idea of creating a generation of “Gods” is appealing to many people, but other people view it as unnatural. Some people believe that kids should be produced the way that they have for years, and that we shouldn’t be messing with genetic modification. I believe that genetic modification is very cool, but potentially very dangerous. People could start trying to make the new generation of Gods and try to eliminate anybody that doesn’t fit their standards.
"fact that science has come far enough to design babies without disease, birth defects, unwanted genes, and much more..." The rose colored 'sales brochure' is always one thing, and 'reality', is always something quite different.
Exactly, lots and lots of risks and consequences we don't yet know about. And the problem is that those genetic modifications will be there in future generations too... And the "Gods" we will be making would all be the same, because we all have kind of the same ideal. But that means there will be less diversity and that all those "Gods" would also have the same negative features. And that might give some serious problems...
Improving our way of life has always been a goal of science. Improving the human condition via gene editing is something I personally strongly support and want to push forward. Just because I won't be a designer human, doesn't mean no one else should be. just because your, or your kids feelings are hurt due to someone else being better then you in every way, doesn't mean they should have to be subject to disease and weakness like the rest of us - like you, me, and every other person on this planet. Plus, there's already people who are better then you and me in every way. That should not be an excuse against gene modification .
Humankind deserves to be the rulers of the universe and this is the next step. Stopping because we are scared is a stupid reason, yes we should be cautious and yes we should take baby steps but we should still move forward.
Mankind does not deserve to be the rulers of the universe and will never be!, the humans are too ignorant and imperfect. Only The Creator or God is ruler of the universe and mankind will soon tremble under his glory!!
We do deserve everything in this universe. Why, because we are smarter than anything on this planet and as the evidence is showing us this universe. Our imperfections will eventually be fixed by genetic modifications. "God" if you believe in him has abandoned us long ago and it is up to us to fix our world and ourselves.
God never abandoned us, we abandoned him! He gave us free will to live in paradise with him or to live strictly by our own means, which will destroy us in the future. You don't get it do you!, as we get smarter and smarter sure we are doing something good, but what then happens to our good morals, our passion for friendship or love? The more power we gain gives us an ability to become corrupt, unless you have the spirit of Him. We will try to be rulers of the universe and fail! God is the ruler and has never abandoned us, He just gives his sons free will! .
+Altomar Ghangis Yes we do. Why would we stop before we have reached our full potential? God gave us free will to be the best we can be. Wasting our true potential is not why God gave us these minds if he wanted mindless followers he wouldn't have given the ability to think for ourselves.
It's exactly Paul Knoepfler kind of fearmongers that forced the transhumanist community into secrecy. The quicker the future gm'ed superhumans can replace his type the better the world will be.
I just listened the ted talk about designer babies. As I understand The speaker Paul knoepfler says we have to be concern about the fact when we genetically modifying our children . I think as humans that's what we being doing all these time . We pass on to the knowledge we have to our children to compete or survive in the society. Isn't it similar to modification. So what's wrong in modifying babies to give them a advantage. As an example some parents can afford to provide better nutritions when they are younger age but some can't.who do you think successful in a race in the school?
+jimprjayp No one would want that. But we do this all the time with rats and cows. Not to mention hundreds of crops. We test there since they have fewer rights than humans do and we keep at it until the first "test" is a success. That is the solution.
+Steven drewer You are completely right ethics have stopped humans from reaching their full potential, in order to truly evolve we must be allowed to progress we must be allowed to strive to be the very best that we can be, as a species. When it is first introduced and for the first few generations it will be hell and there will be extreme bigotry but in the end the evolved species will prevail and the non-evolved will die out and there will be no more bigotry because we will all be evolved, until we evolve again and the process continues.
They will be just as important as us, I'm going to say it, they are like us but they may be smarter, they may be prettier but that's in the eye of the beholder. Some of us may be smarter than some of them and some of them smarter than some of us, not all of them and not all of us, but some. It's fully possible.
Using genetic engineering kids would become like clothing (metaphor), there would be common fads such as blond kids are in, red heads are out etc. I like it but it has some serious sci-fi to it.
This guy is scaremongering. He lays out a worse case scenario and appeals to the ignorance, and the sense of inferiority of the people. Obviously there should be certain limitations for the genetic heath of the species, but if done correctly and carefully the benefits would be both positive and profound.
I agree. For sure PGD and Crispr are risky, but so is travelling out of Africa, learning to be bipedal, and mastering fire and agriculture. Knoepfler seems to wants us to only sit in a couch and watch TV everyday, which is of course low risk and perfectly harmless to his dumb kids, but that's not how humans have evolved since we got off the trees.
Once AI matures it can help with the design of perfect humans. Together AI and perfect humans can begin to remove the less perfect humans - Clone Wars Anyone!
This could lead to eliminating diversity in human , everyone wants to be perfect and looks perfect , but have we thought even beauty is socially constructed and relative ?
We can and do make people sicker using conventional medicine. But with care, testing and studying, they can be used for good. Until someone can explain why Genetic Modification should be treated differently to surgery in its ability to change people or its potential for harm then they should both be regarded as different techniques to the same goal.
I feel like people will be mean to them, sometimes on purpose or on accident. Like older people will tell their grandchildren to get rid of them, the the false christian community will spread lies about them not being humans and will think they are bodies and have no spirits or souls and will say they aren't allowed into heaven, possibly making those children be like "God won't like me?" when God REALLY LOVES THOSE KIDS.
I would rather be modified to live a life where i won’t suffer than to live in this imperfect body. If this body gets too old and useless i may as well kill myself than to keep living in an old body that loses its privilege to drive cars and do normal human activities.
He makes some good points, but the emotionally charged words and lack of objectivity toward the topic lessened the blow for me. His words, probably meant to be a warning of things that could come to pass, were tantamount to a bearded man on a sidewalk shouting "DOOM ON YOU!" If you do a segment on the pros and cons of a topic, try to speak on the pros for more than a couple of sentences before switching over to the cons. Very little information on the speech was grounded in reality. "Ah, yes," a scientist says, "we finally found the smart gene. You know, the one that makes people smarter. That gene that we couldn't find, but definitely existed. I'm glad we found it. The gene. Now if we multiply it by ten, we can make five-year olds smarter than adults. It's a good thing the smart gene exists." Also, if it costs several million dollars to make a designer baby, then who's going to be ostracized for not having one? Since it's so expensive to "hack" through the babe's internal chemistry, may as well hack his arms off and give him some robot limbs.
Soldiers will feel no Pain, remorse fear, compassion or empathy coupled with super muscle, reflexes and co they will be the perfect psychopaths mass produced who can Perform legal killing and probaly go nuts later on after Service....or are categorized as subhuman and legally Killed after Service. they will Follow every order and are a good Tool for the powerful to fight opposition in a totalitarian State of human engineered vs normal people, als caste system. Coupled with an controlling ai and Chips implanted they will be totally Controlled, no free will. And if it happens there will be a "fail save" aka deadly chip implanted. Remember Ai can hear every thought... and generate real seeming thoughts and emotions in the brain through the chip....
I want a kid with this characteristic: (Elevator Music in background) Race: White Ethnicity: Hispanic Height: 6'4 Hair color: Black Eye color: Green All the genes that will help him be the best he can be.
Keep in mind nobody can patent nature or anything natural. That's why the profit from gmo corn and vegetables. But the problem will be: impact investments. Human capitol bond markets. Trading and enslaving humans like livestock.
This world would be a world without medical problems, however that's just focusing on pure science what about social behavior between these two species. This could solve, but also cause problems, but this is my opinion and I'm not a college graduate in Pyscology or Social studies so i may be wrong. Side note: (I don't know what major its known as and if you're triggered by a 14 year old not knowing certain majors in college you should probably rethink your priorities)
You probably couldn't because the regeneration of the cells is slowed down so you would have to inject a dramatically larger amount of Genes into the body
in my view the largest problem would be the gender imbalance in places such as china where they want males to work so they would not have as many female children
While I disliked the video, he does have some valid concerns. There could be some sometimes extreme problems with genetic enhancements whether they are real (i.e. The Wrath of Kahn) or socially generated through fear or jealousy. I disliked the video though because he wants to put a hold on something that is becoming increasingly necessary as more populations come out of 3rd world nation status with the increase in global economics. While it is a good thing give people a life where anyone can thrive, the negative consequence of better healthcare and expected social acceptance is that it hinders evolution. My mother had medium asthma and I had moderate asthma. In a world without healthcare, I would not have been born. I may not have survived childhood had I been. Fortunately, my son does not, but he could have and his children may someday. It's not exactly a horror story, but the point remains that genetic editing may be a way to circumvent evolution from effectively reversing or halting. That issue may become serious centuries from now or by 2030. The fact that we don't know is why we should be going forward with genetic editing now.
OMG, stop it, stop making up and inventing things to worry about. Let the parents decide what kind of children they want, smarter, taller, healthier, better looking , it's all good. Just do a good honest job, it is not dangerous, waiting gives the big corporations time to get patens and take control of it for profit.
this argument was such a stretch, and sounds like fearmongering that seems rooted in personal issues about his own perceived shortcomings (beauty which is subjective, and intelligence which is complex and multi-faceted) and family history with eugenics. Says nothing about the possibilities of gene modification for gene therapy, possibly curing inherited diseases like anemia and hemophilia; nor was it that scientific, as genes tend to mutate over generations anyway, so sometimes genes modify themselves in a sense. In that definition, we are all slightly genetically modified organisms.
They can alter Dna in the living but genes I don't know. I can't confirm. People in real life are very different. there is great variation. Its individuals as groups what happens to intelligence. Is a man running around a track cleverer than the runner where do we place intelligence it might seem dumb to drop a cup but then what happens.
It will be very interesting when childs go more and more intelligent if that is possible. The world needs more intelligent people for survival as species. But where is the edge of intelligence? will eventually be people one hundred times Isaac Newton´s intellicence?
But what do we see as intelligence? Most people now a days are all about STEM fields, that's the future. So if we could, then we would engineer our kid to be good at STEM. But that would mean it would be less good at other things, we can't make some kind of superhumans that will be good at everything because every positive feature will have negative side effects. So we will be creating a lot of people with the same abilities, what paradoxaly will create a lot of people not being able to think outside that one box and not being good for our survival.
IT's like a programer modify some code of a very sophisticated system, but he doesn't kown how the system works. The sytem may runs ok, but it may have some problems in the future . the modify gene will pollute the humen genes, because the babies who are genetic modified will get married and delivery babies when they grown up
very mushy talk :/ what is he on about...jeezs..what's his argument? "it is good, it is baad..,we got to talk about it - but rather talk it away..but it might not be that bad but it might.." OMFBalls
Humans are not God, these people are people JUST LIKE US, they learned from our genetics, some humans are smart, too. Old people have wisdom, they may not know all but they have been here longer than us. God is the one true God, and man is sinful, it's a spiritual thing, but do we hate the Humans whose genes were changed int he womb? No, we teach them, if they sin, they go to God and repent as he is their God and our God, he rules over ALL being in the universe.
How are we going to learn about it if we don't explore and experiment? Does not people want easier, higher quality life? That's how you do it, with an AI and all those stuff.
Fact: genetic diseases are stored in chromosomes, Fact: nobody exactly knows what percentage of intelligence is genetic and what is from education but ranges from 50:50 to 30-70. Genetic modification in humans or gene therapy would prevent horrible diseases such as cystic fybrosis, charcot-marie-tooth disease or other alteration from been passed onto your children. This guy is mixing superficial (and ridiculous stuff like being pretty as if there was a standard definition for that) with the real important ones. Of course it needs regulation, and of course it has it. It angers me a lot to see scientist manipulating the audience to share their personal opinion withoug explaining things properly.
Scientifically, the idea of “designer babies” is an amazing accomplishment. It’s an incredible fact that science has come far enough to design babies without disease, birth defects, unwanted genes, and much more. Ethically, it’s a little trickier. Genetically modified babies would have many differences from babies that have not been modified. For people who can’t afford genetically modified babies, or don’t want them for other reasons, the differences could seem like unfair advantages. Genetically modified babies have the opportunity to be healthier than normal babies, have a higher intelligence level, and have certain physical characteristics that have been deemed desirable. Lots of people are all for the idea of creating a new generation of people that are more physically, mentally, and overall enhanced. This idea of creating a generation of “Gods” is appealing to many people, but other people view it as unnatural. Some people believe that kids should be produced the way that they have for years, and that we shouldn’t be messing with genetic modification. I believe that genetic modification is very cool, but potentially very dangerous. People could start trying to make the new generation of Gods and try to eliminate anybody that doesn’t fit their standards.
"fact that science has come far enough to design babies without disease, birth defects, unwanted genes, and much more..."
The rose colored 'sales brochure' is always one thing, and 'reality', is always something quite different.
Exactly, lots and lots of risks and consequences we don't yet know about. And the problem is that those genetic modifications will be there in future generations too...
And the "Gods" we will be making would all be the same, because we all have kind of the same ideal. But that means there will be less diversity and that all those "Gods" would also have the same negative features. And that might give some serious problems...
Improving our way of life has always been a goal of science. Improving the human condition via gene editing is something I personally strongly support and want to push forward. Just because I won't be a designer human, doesn't mean no one else should be. just because your, or your kids feelings are hurt due to someone else being better then you in every way, doesn't mean they should have to be subject to disease and weakness like the rest of us - like you, me, and every other person on this planet. Plus, there's already people who are better then you and me in every way. That should not be an excuse against gene modification .
Inequality will go further .
Exactly
I'm glad that China will likely ignore EU and US prudence, on the issue of improving human health and capabilities through gene editing.
Humankind deserves to be the rulers of the universe and this is the next step. Stopping because we are scared is a stupid reason, yes we should be cautious and yes we should take baby steps but we should still move forward.
Mankind does not deserve to be the rulers of the universe and will never be!, the humans are too ignorant and imperfect. Only The Creator or God is ruler of the universe and mankind will soon tremble under his glory!!
We do deserve everything in this universe. Why, because we are smarter than anything on this planet and as the evidence is showing us this universe. Our imperfections will eventually be fixed by genetic modifications. "God" if you believe in him has abandoned us long ago and it is up to us to fix our world and ourselves.
God never abandoned us, we abandoned him! He gave us free will to live in paradise with him or to live strictly by our own means, which will destroy us in the future. You don't get it do you!, as we get smarter and smarter sure we are doing something good, but what then happens to our good morals, our passion for friendship or love? The more power we gain gives us an ability to become corrupt, unless you have the spirit of Him. We will try to be rulers of the universe and fail! God is the ruler and has never abandoned us, He just gives his sons free will!
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By the way I'm a genetically modified human being
+Altomar Ghangis Yes we do. Why would we stop before we have reached our full potential? God gave us free will to be the best we can be. Wasting our true potential is not why God gave us these minds if he wanted mindless followers he wouldn't have given the ability to think for ourselves.
The talk I want to hear is about How to Raise Your Healthy Intelligent Kind Genetically Modified Babies in a world that fears them
Nancy Kamuzora, they can be genetically modified, but they still will be human, that's the entire point.
Carmen Rivas
Its not that I think they won't be human. They'll just be better than the average human and it will show, as the talk suggests.
It's exactly Paul Knoepfler kind of fearmongers that forced the transhumanist community into secrecy. The quicker the future gm'ed superhumans can replace his type the better the world will be.
I just listened the ted talk about designer babies. As I understand The speaker Paul knoepfler says we have to be concern about the fact when we genetically modifying our children .
I think as humans that's what we being doing all these time . We pass on to the knowledge we have to our children to compete or survive in the society. Isn't it similar to modification. So what's wrong in modifying babies to give them a advantage.
As an example some parents can afford to provide better nutritions when they are younger age but some can't.who do you think successful in a race in the school?
Dhanushka Gamage genetic modification is different ,than parents giving you lifehacks -_-
mae how does it different? The end product is modified than the old one. Better or worse it may be competitive with the old ones
Dhanushka Gamage we can create a new living thing and these thing can get rid of human being.
seems to me like ethics is the only burden stopping humans from evolving.
+Steven drewer evolution is no longer thought of as survival of the fittest. Sure you want to risk your child to the experimental stage?
+jimprjayp No one would want that. But we do this all the time with rats and cows. Not to mention hundreds of crops. We test there since they have fewer rights than humans do and we keep at it until the first "test" is a success. That is the solution.
+Steven drewer You are completely right ethics have stopped humans from reaching their full potential, in order to truly evolve we must be allowed to progress we must be allowed to strive to be the very best that we can be, as a species. When it is first introduced and for the first few generations it will be hell and there will be extreme bigotry but in the end the evolved species will prevail and the non-evolved will die out and there will be no more bigotry because we will all be evolved, until we evolve again and the process continues.
so true
Don't worry. There are tons of people that have no ethics.
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They will be just as important as us, I'm going to say it, they are like us but they may be smarter, they may be prettier but that's in the eye of the beholder.
Some of us may be smarter than some of them and some of them smarter than some of us, not all of them and not all of us, but some. It's fully possible.
Ppl have good intentions with it like getting rid of certain disease like cancer or autism but this could be very bad
Using genetic engineering kids would become like clothing (metaphor), there would be common fads such as blond kids are in, red heads are out etc. I like it but it has some serious sci-fi to it.
This guy is scaremongering. He lays out a worse case scenario and appeals to the ignorance, and the sense of inferiority of the people. Obviously there should be certain limitations for the genetic heath of the species, but if done correctly and carefully the benefits would be both positive and profound.
I agree. For sure PGD and Crispr are risky, but so is travelling out of Africa, learning to be bipedal, and mastering fire and agriculture. Knoepfler seems to wants us to only sit in a couch and watch TV everyday, which is of course low risk and perfectly harmless to his dumb kids, but that's not how humans have evolved since we got off the trees.
What were you expectinf of juice?
Datalore de la Terra back from
STOP!!! WAIT!!! Their might be some NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES!!!!
What about the positive consequences?
WHAT??!
P A N I C ! ! ! ! !
lol! pretty accurate summary of his (non)arguments
No, but really! This could be great!
JURASSIC PARK IS HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great talk Paul! Please keep this discussion up.
Once AI matures it can help with the design of perfect humans. Together AI and perfect humans can begin to remove the less perfect humans - Clone Wars Anyone!
This could lead to eliminating diversity in human , everyone wants to be perfect and looks perfect , but have we thought even beauty is socially constructed and relative
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Who gets to decide what these "UPGRADES" are?
Rich people.
Parents who probably want the best for them
We can and do make people sicker using conventional medicine. But with care, testing and studying, they can be used for good. Until someone can explain why Genetic Modification should be treated differently to surgery in its ability to change people or its potential for harm then they should both be regarded as different techniques to the same goal.
... and what desision may you make next time". Great final.
I feel like people will be mean to them, sometimes on purpose or on accident.
Like older people will tell their grandchildren to get rid of them, the the false christian community will spread lies about them not being humans and will think they are bodies and have no spirits or souls and will say they aren't allowed into heaven, possibly making those children be like "God won't like me?" when God REALLY LOVES THOSE KIDS.
i you cannot create your own child, dont change what God creates through nature
I would feel happy that my child is human like me and not a GMO child! .
I would rather be modified to live a life where i won’t suffer than to live in this imperfect body. If this body gets too old and useless i may as well kill myself than to keep living in an old body that loses its privilege to drive cars and do normal human activities.
As a genetically modified baby from the fallout of radiation from Chernobyl... the visible cognitive dissonance on these peoples faces is pathetic.
Who is here after the new about the Baby immune to HIV being born
The speaker looks like his parents should've had him modified.
He makes some good points, but the emotionally charged words and lack of objectivity toward the topic lessened the blow for me. His words, probably meant to be a warning of things that could come to pass, were tantamount to a bearded man on a sidewalk shouting "DOOM ON YOU!" If you do a segment on the pros and cons of a topic, try to speak on the pros for more than a couple of sentences before switching over to the cons. Very little information on the speech was grounded in reality. "Ah, yes," a scientist says, "we finally found the smart gene. You know, the one that makes people smarter. That gene that we couldn't find, but definitely existed. I'm glad we found it. The gene. Now if we multiply it by ten, we can make five-year olds smarter than adults. It's a good thing the smart gene exists." Also, if it costs several million dollars to make a designer baby, then who's going to be ostracized for not having one? Since it's so expensive to "hack" through the babe's internal chemistry, may as well hack his arms off and give him some robot limbs.
screw gm kids i want to be gm'd !
I already am. ;-)
Wow.
Sheep
Soldiers will feel no Pain, remorse fear, compassion or empathy coupled with super muscle, reflexes and co they will be the perfect psychopaths mass produced who can Perform legal killing and probaly go nuts later on after Service....or are categorized as subhuman and legally Killed after Service. they will Follow every order and are a good Tool for the powerful to fight opposition in a totalitarian State of human engineered vs normal people, als caste system. Coupled with an controlling ai and Chips implanted they will be totally Controlled, no free will. And if it happens there will be a "fail save" aka deadly chip implanted. Remember Ai can hear every thought... and generate real seeming thoughts and emotions in the brain through the chip....
Let's just go ahead clip out disabling childhood diseases ASAP. I hate to see children suffer.
I want a kid with this characteristic: (Elevator Music in background)
Race: White
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Height: 6'4
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Green
All the genes that will help him be the best he can be.
So you want to make an Anime kid?
Keep in mind nobody can patent nature or anything natural. That's why the profit from gmo corn and vegetables. But the problem will be: impact investments. Human capitol bond markets. Trading and enslaving humans like livestock.
He is an example of why we NEED eugenics and GM kids. He wants everyone to be as pathetic as he is.
10:48 me too
imagine a world without problems, is it good or is it bad? Idk
This world would be a world without medical problems, however that's just focusing on pure science what about social behavior between these two species. This could solve, but also cause problems, but this is my opinion and I'm not a college graduate in Pyscology or Social studies so i may be wrong.
Side note:
(I don't know what major its known as and if you're triggered by a 14 year old not knowing certain majors in college you should probably rethink your priorities)
Echy 97 Listen to Jay Dyer on TH-cam.
Can a fully grown person modify his/her genes? Does that work? How?
You probably couldn't because the regeneration of the cells is slowed down so you would have to inject a dramatically larger amount of Genes into the body
Adult cells I've heard are almost impossible to modify. As they stop dividing after a certain age.
At least for some cells. The hope is that with CRISPR we will be able to target cancerous cells and cells with viral genes in them.
Could CRISPR do something about aging cells? At least in theory
+Hyder Noori go to the Kurtzgesagt channel. They did a very informative video on the subject.
in my view the largest problem would be the gender imbalance in places such as china where they want males to work so they would not have as many female children
That is the least. As it could be a regulative feature or if not easily manipulative, specially nowadays.
Who cares if they are not or girl? Aren't women oppressed and need more rights. Why not have a kid who is less oppressed.
This man is probably a Cristian and in his opinion , you cant modify Gods creation . I as een atheist do not share his opinion .
While I disliked the video, he does have some valid concerns. There could be some sometimes extreme problems with genetic enhancements whether they are real (i.e. The Wrath of Kahn) or socially generated through fear or jealousy. I disliked the video though because he wants to put a hold on something that is becoming increasingly necessary as more populations come out of 3rd world nation status with the increase in global economics. While it is a good thing give people a life where anyone can thrive, the negative consequence of better healthcare and expected social acceptance is that it hinders evolution. My mother had medium asthma and I had moderate asthma. In a world without healthcare, I would not have been born. I may not have survived childhood had I been. Fortunately, my son does not, but he could have and his children may someday. It's not exactly a horror story, but the point remains that genetic editing may be a way to circumvent evolution from effectively reversing or halting. That issue may become serious centuries from now or by 2030. The fact that we don't know is why we should be going forward with genetic editing now.
Del didn't touch on this one
OMG, stop it, stop making up and inventing things to worry about. Let the parents decide what kind of children they want, smarter, taller, healthier, better looking , it's all good. Just do a good honest job, it is not dangerous, waiting gives the big corporations time to get patens and take control of it for profit.
Stop the time for a sec. If we could, with this tech, live longer: We could all have time to REALLY grow UP.
this argument was such a stretch, and sounds like fearmongering that seems rooted in personal issues about his own perceived shortcomings (beauty which is subjective, and intelligence which is complex and multi-faceted) and family history with eugenics. Says nothing about the possibilities of gene modification for gene therapy, possibly curing inherited diseases like anemia and hemophilia; nor was it that scientific, as genes tend to mutate over generations anyway, so sometimes genes modify themselves in a sense. In that definition, we are all slightly genetically modified organisms.
They can alter Dna in the living but genes I don't know. I can't confirm. People in real life are very different. there is great variation. Its individuals as groups what happens to intelligence. Is a man running around a track cleverer than the runner where do we place intelligence it might seem dumb to drop a cup but then what happens.
Fear=stupid
It will be very interesting when childs go more and more intelligent if that is possible. The world needs more intelligent people for survival as species. But where is the edge of intelligence? will eventually be people one hundred times Isaac Newton´s intellicence?
But what do we see as intelligence? Most people now a days are all about STEM fields, that's the future. So if we could, then we would engineer our kid to be good at STEM. But that would mean it would be less good at other things, we can't make some kind of superhumans that will be good at everything because every positive feature will have negative side effects. So we will be creating a lot of people with the same abilities, what paradoxaly will create a lot of people not being able to think outside that one box and not being good for our survival.
Test tube babies have been going on a long time. Watch the movie Boys from Brazil
dont do that
IT's like a programer modify some code of a very sophisticated system, but he doesn't kown how the system works. The sytem may runs ok, but it may have some problems in the future . the modify gene will pollute the humen genes, because the babies who are genetic modified will get married and delivery babies when they
grown up
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me too I'm gm
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Genetically modifying shall never be allowed, I will spill blood to make sure it won't happen
I will kill genetically modified people
Generally, I'll have to disagree, I'm fond of this field of research and it's potential.
What if it's just to make humans resistant against diseases?
very mushy talk :/ what is he on about...jeezs..what's his argument? "it is good, it is baad..,we got to talk about it - but rather talk it away..but it might not be that bad but it might.." OMFBalls
lol if you dont wont to deal with it just dont have children simple
Humans are not God, these people are people JUST LIKE US, they learned from our genetics, some humans are smart, too. Old people have wisdom, they may not know all but they have been here longer than us.
God is the one true God, and man is sinful, it's a spiritual thing, but do we hate the Humans whose genes were changed int he womb? No, we teach them, if they sin, they go to God and repent as he is their God and our God, he rules over ALL being in the universe.
How are we going to learn about it if we don't explore and experiment? Does not people want easier, higher quality life? That's how you do it, with an AI and all those stuff.
Oh yeah yeah
disturbing