/sci/ - Science & Math

Why does everyone simply want to use technology to fulfill their sexual fantasies?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2017818/Embryos-involving-genes-animals-mixed-humans-
produced-secretively-past-years.html

Look at the fear-mongering in this article. It's not just because it's the Daily Mail either. Planet of the Apes scenario? Really? Why is there a huge trend in Europe about being anti-genetic engineering?

http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/en/news/food/A-mum-takes-action-against-GM-wheat/
http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/22/if-you-dont-want-to-be-treated
People in Europe are burning and vandalizing GM crops. Of course, America's not perfect either. We introduced a bill banning the release of GM fish into a public lake. But at least that was sort of justified because it was public. Many of the worst offenses to GMO research in Europe have been done to isolated crops or on private property. In England I believe, people are banned form selling it as food. This is ridiculous. Genetic engineering is the future, we need to stop letting Luddites affect public policy.

>Men die, planets die, even stars die. We know all this. Because we know it, we seek something more—a transcendence of transience, translation to incorruptible form. An escape if you will, a stop to the wheel. We seek, therefore, to bless ourselves with perfect knowledge and perfect will; To become as gods, take the universe in hand, and transform it in our image—for our own delight. As it is on Earth, so it shall be in the heavens. The inevitable result of incredible improbability, the arrow of evolution is lipping us into the transhuman – an apotheosis to reason, salvation – attained by good works.

Transhumanism thread. I'm into genetic engineering and hope to work on optimizing the genetic code to maximize intelligence, strength and hopefully of course biological immortality. I have high hopes that DNA will become programmable and a DIY biological revelation is upon us. Open-source genetics would promote creativity while vastly increasing our knowledge of possible genetic combination. I think the future of genetics and biology is in the hands of the individual, we just need better technology to predict the effects of various genes. It's slow right now, but honestly I don't think there's ever been a greater time to be alive.

>Nobody here will live another 100 years
>Implying I won't live forever