A small distraction (OT) to btc pricing minutiae:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612458/exclusive-chinese-scientists-are-creating-crispr-babies/
This would open a Pandora's box, most definitely.
All talk about current inequality is just about numbers that could be attained one way or another.
Not so simple if you are essentially MADE genetically different.
For maximum publicity they started with the gene that is accessory to HIV (CCR5).
No active CCR5 present, no HIV.
Will it stop there? Of course, not.
Seven percent of Swedes have that mutation, it apparently protects from small pocks and cholera as well as HIV.https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612458/exclusive-chinese-scientists-are-creating-crispr-babies/
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A daring effort is under way to create the first children whose DNA has been tailored using gene editing.
This would open a Pandora's box, most definitely.
All talk about current inequality is just about numbers that could be attained one way or another.
Not so simple if you are essentially MADE genetically different.
For maximum publicity they started with the gene that is accessory to HIV (CCR5).
No active CCR5 present, no HIV.
Will it stop there? Of course, not.
That's interesting since DNA tests of old skeletons from graves show that a plague almost wiped out the Scandinavian population at about the same time as the yamnaya culture entered Scandinavia and brought with them the bronze age and the family structure that we still have in the western world today. Maybe that plague was small pocks and the survivors had that gene mutation.
Just a thought.
The Chinese have a program for identifying the genes that gives you high IQ, I bet you that there already are babies in china with altered IQ genes.
But this will also open up for cosmetic gene surgery. The most sold beauty product in black Africa and the Indian subcontinent is skin bleaching creams, I bet that we will see babies on these continents with genetically altered skin tone really soon, and that's just the beginning.
Personally I'm all in favor of of it.