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Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
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I'm actually pro genetic engineering for this usecase. By expanding our medicine, we created an evolutionary problem: Carriers of genetic diseases keep passing their genes, passing the defects further. This will result in more and more health issues unless faulty genes themselves are fixed
There are more capable, actual medical professionals that can advance this field in a non-wallstreet all eggs in one basket kind of way.
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Oh hell no, don't bring Jurassic Park to the real world, please.
(JP did this with dinos, but this is the exact thing that movie warned about, just in this case with humans instead of dinos)
Altman finds a way...
Similarly, the type of things currently going on with AI, most notably Grok being in bed with the Military, are what Terminator warns about.
-sigh- Dystopian/post-apocalyptic fiction is not supposed to be an instruction manual, guys, it's supposed to be a warning.....
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No no. Do it with dinos!
I feel like this kind of thing can create a “Great Filter” situation. Tech seems to work well and most babies are genetically engineered now, but wait, why is everyone dying off before 30? Nope, it’s not the genetic engineering, and anyone who says that is a tinfoil hat wearer. Just look at all of these studies funded by big corporations and captured government agencies who have financial interests in its success—you’re not one of those anti-science idiots are you? Ok, actually, the data is in and it is the genetic engineering. Humanity is dying off, not reproducing fast enough, and will be extinct soon, but it made a bunch of billionaires even richer, so all good, right?
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If (and is a really, really big if) this open the door to a better understanding of this type of pathologies and a way to somewhat cure them, I would say that it would be for the better.
But of course I am sure it will not end this way...
This guy can.
You know, everybody makes a idiot of himself as best as he can, and this guy can.
As long as they wait until they’re 18.
Wait a tic. I've seen this movie.
This is how I find out that he's gay?
Well, good for him and his partner.