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.

I for one will welcome our new super human replicant overlords

There's some things I just don't think man was meant to tamper with. It's like playing God. Could backfire hard

@Goose ...or our replacements will "build" us <:nervous:359009898115104770>

Gene edit till we become food from sausage party

Lmao I'd love to see designer babies all be sterile

If my line is healthier, Stabler, more successful line than before I don't care if I'm evropan

> Be Chinese gene editing company
> Have different gene options/packages available, ranging from mitigating health issues to choosing race
> Provide lowkey incentives for parents who choose nonwhite children
> Profit from special interest groups subsidizing such business behavior

I don't trust governments to actually regulate this responsibly.

If we secure our future and use these technologies to our advantage it wont matter

one major concern are backdoor flaws in the "design" of said engineered human

I want gene editing so we can end the manlet health crisis

It’s not like completely foreign genes are being added, just making the top ten percent more like the top 80 percent

@TylerHess Pretty naive to think this tech would aid in equity.

That can be done with breeding incentives

@ChippedStones Yeah, but then, where will we draw our leadership from? <:nervous:359009898115104770>