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[–]TrannyPornO21 points22 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

The whitest pill.

[–]xxxrivenmainxxx20 points21 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

Cant wait for the hyprocrite mainstreammedia to react to this! "buhu all people are beatiful! unless youre an unattractive male, then go kill yourself !"

[–]allodermate 1 points1 points [recovered] | Copy Link

If you read the article, this doesnt really belong... yet.

Genes wwre editted to be HIV resistant/immune babies.

But the implications are strong - i.e. if AIDS is no longer an issue how much worse will hypergamy get? But the greater implication: when are designer babies coming to be the death knell of chads and nonchads?

Only giga mega chads will get sex since women won't need "hawt guy" genes if they can just edit the baby - all she needs is to get pregnant, which she can from fucking only giga chads

[–]giantillusion5 points6 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

This is the beginning of a dystopia

[–]Robx900111 points12 points  (5 children) | Copy Link

Stupidly high IQ, 6’2” + height, natural immunity to super bugs, reduced myostatin production, and hung like a horse! All for the low cost of 7 figures American or 6951600.00 Yaun. This is the future, did I miss anything?

[–]xxxrivenmainxxx1 point2 points  (4 children) | Copy Link

Why would it be expensive? I am not an expert, but from what ive read about crisper/cas9 it should be a rather easy procedure once you know how to do it.

[–]Robx90014 points5 points  (3 children) | Copy Link

I was trying to say designer babies will only be available to the top 1%.

[–]xxxrivenmainxxx0 points1 point  (2 children) | Copy Link

Yes, but why?

[–]YetAnotherCommenter3 points4 points  (1 child) | Copy Link

To be entirely fair, the history of technology basically shows that new tech is almost always very expensive.

But it gets less expensive over time (as our competence and technology improves).

So it might be the case that designer babies will at first be restricted to the 1%. But I don't see any reason why the technology won't get cheaper over time.

Its possible that at least some of the 1%, after they get their designer babies, will demand regulation that makes such babies much more expensive to produce (probably under the pretense of 'public safety'), so as to stop the technology getting cheaper and thus "pull up the ladder." But I wouldn't regard this as certain.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

gattaca is really not that far away now, isn't it?

[–]dragonballcell2 points3 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

Cope. You can edit other people's DNA, but you're still a subhuman chink.

[–]incelicious1 point2 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

Is Gattica becoming a reality?

[–]autotldr0 points1 point  (0 children) | Copy Link

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 85%. (I'm a bot)


"There are many effective ways to prevent HIV in healthy individuals: for example, protected sex. And there are effective treatments if one does contract it. This experiment exposes healthy normal children to risks of gene editing for no real necessary benefit. In many other places in the world, this would be illegal punishable by imprisonment."

People with one copy of the gene can still get HIV. Musunuru said that even if editing worked perfectly, people without normal CCR5 genes face higher risks of contracting certain other viruses, such as West Nile, and of dying from flu.

"The claim made by those responsible for the research is that the babies have been genome-edited in an attempt to make them immune to HIV. The lifetime risk of contracting HIV is extremely low in the first place; there are other means of prevention and it is no longer an incurable, inevitably terminal disease. Putting these children at such drastic risk for such a marginal gain is unjustifiable."


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