Charlie Stross on Nostr: Sam Altman, 2017, "genetic enhancement is going to happen" ... thereby proving that ...
Sam Altman, 2017, "genetic enhancement is going to happen" ... thereby proving that this dipshit has zero understanding of medical ethics.
(It ain't going to work on adults, it's only practical on neonates, which raises huge issues of informed consent to elective but life-altering medical procedures—before we get any deeper into the can of worms.)
Saying "it's going to happen" signals a refusal to engage with the ethical constraints of medicine: at Nuremberg they hanged Nazi doctors for that.
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