I suspect it will be their downfall too, lol.

I’m gonna be cyborg from the DC comics.

This is what I’ve learned

Hopefully they have late term editing

So we can cure gills of autism

@ChippedStones Still taking your daily vaccs to max the avtism? Its a crucial step

Gene editing could be really helpful for colonizing other planets since we could modify our people to be better adapted to their environment and particularly gravity

I sent a tweet to Neil Degrassi Tyson today

@Bjorn - MD oh he already answered the question

@Papa Pizzagate interesting point, how do you see such a scenario backfiring?

About autism

Watch the JF vid bro

Yeah I'm gonna have to go with this being an overall good thing if done properly and with caution

I'm sceptical of gene editing. Too many uncharted waters.

Can we remove certain physical limitations? Muscle mass, height, weight, bone density? What about things like pain receptors?

Can we remove or edit things that have a negative effect on the human condition - keep ourselves more focused and higher achieving? What about removing empathy? Or certain inclinations of free will?

Is the end result even human?

@bspon002 what better a destiny for man but to see every uncharted water mapped

We're more likely & closer to having a worldwide technological collapse than we are to colonizing other planets

Yeah, I'm generally opposed. I certainly don't think we should *initiate* it, but if we have to do a little bit just to stay competitive... 🤷

@Papa Pizzagate You can already remove emotions by cutting certain parts of the brain

We've got like 5 billion years before the sun implodes I'm sure we're gonna get there

Gonna gene edit my kids to be smaller so we can have gnome villages

I also don’t see anything wrong with making traits which are already well represented in our population even more popular, such as strength and objective reasoning. Also if we tone down this super gay pathological altruism it would lessen the risk of our people becoming soft and repeating history

@ChippedStones hell yeah

@Kingfish personally I think it'd be far safer just to let people reproduce and have kids wihh stronger people if possible. Messing with genomes could backfire hard

Can we start Identity Grandmas Garden?

Look guys. Gene editing is like identity politics. Once one group does it, you need to do it or you're screwed.

@ChippedStones I'm in

I think we already have meddled with evolution so much we've drastically affected it. Might as well direct in ourselves now

Good point Jacob

Gene-editing our kids to have brutally unyielding in-group preference <:usinnoodle:420778112226164736>

@Jacob not sure about that. What if gene editing leads to long term consequences like the lack of fertility

Ah yes gene editing

What could possibly go wrong

We cant really adapt to anything but modern civilization anymore so we might end up needing to do it anyway

@MrDefault <:really:453005408064241674>

Edit genes enough, you're no longer white but some new race

gene-editing + advances in AI = bad time for humans

eventually we'll build our replacements

@missliterallywho hot take I don't care

No

Right, but the end result may not even be man, is my point @Kingfish - but some aberration build upon the husk of what man was. We may end up creating a new "Race" or subspecies, that may not look kindly on us as their intellectual and physical lessers.