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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

There are companies creating artificial life by generating custom chromosomes.

My dude, not a fun thing to think about who might have control over that. Is it a musk, zuck, cook or epstein?

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

No, none of those guys are involved afaik. The one that made the first breakthrough in artificial life is ran by the same dude who competed with the Human Genome Project to map 99% of the human genome. They modified an extremely simple bacteria that only had something like 300 base pairs

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

We still don't know what type of person they are. Them being smart and focused on the research, doesn't give them a pass. They could even not care who else has the info.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago

Yup. Many Nazi scientists only cared about the research. A lot of medical and physics breakthroughs last century directly resulted from those experiments.