/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15248878
To be honest, the fact that they did anything at all to them is an achievement in itself.
But we're not even close to GATTACA tier editing.
And I fear by then cyberization would be happening to an extent, rendering it pointless. What's the point in editing if you're gonna be synthetic anyway?

We should be focusing more on healing ailments than working out what gene causes them though. Ailments are require constant attention and any breakthrough to helping treat them may render editing a mere luxury rather than a necessity as we think of it now.
That doesn't mean that we should ignore genes in the process, just that we should focus on preventing the end result more than the basal root cause if it is a genetic basal source.

Speaking of science fiction.
I'm more concerned about becoming "the many" with regards to mutations that happen on living people. Now that's terror.
Personally, I'd prefer SHODAN than the many. They come off as a cult and weirdly warped and demented (and this is compared to SHODAN).
Gene editing could be more terrifying than rogue AI in my opinion. You could end up with a grey goo scenario. At the end of the day, the tiny proteins and what not in our bodies are essentially organic nanomachines. People like to think of them less like machines, but the reality is that they are totally like machines.

>>14635082
>Does the space feel the many
All will feel the many, anon.
The many is all.