RE: Hawkings: Khan is real!
October 16, 2018 at 3:31 am
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2018 at 3:40 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
Can't believe I also called him Hawkings. I blame Beta for putting the name in my head! 
And to think that last time I posted about him, I googled to check whether it was Steven or Stephen.
Stephen Hawking may have been right, I don't know. But then neither did he. That was my only point.
It's worth pointing out though that we do genetic engineering all the time. Whether it's by selecting a mate based on specific criteria, some of them we aren't even aware of such finding some body smells more attractive because of the owner's immune system. Genetic engineering would just be a more direct route. And in the same way we don't know all the different ways a gene can affect the phenotype, we rarely recognise all the advantages and disadvantages of certain features of a body or mind.
But like with AI, I am sure that there are certain things that we should be wary of. But it's probably not the long term sci-fi trope inspired alarmist predictions.
And to think that last time I posted about him, I googled to check whether it was Steven or Stephen.
(October 15, 2018 at 5:39 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Complexity may be a major hurdle to achieving safe, consistent, predicatable results. It may also be a major hurdle to making the process affordable and accessible.
It is not necessarily a nearly as serious a hurdle to achieving some significant but opportunistic results by those who are willing to gamble their own or other people’s health and safety in a processed too expensive to apply to but a few.
I think Hawkin is right. It is th second category we should fear.
Stephen Hawking may have been right, I don't know. But then neither did he. That was my only point.
It's worth pointing out though that we do genetic engineering all the time. Whether it's by selecting a mate based on specific criteria, some of them we aren't even aware of such finding some body smells more attractive because of the owner's immune system. Genetic engineering would just be a more direct route. And in the same way we don't know all the different ways a gene can affect the phenotype, we rarely recognise all the advantages and disadvantages of certain features of a body or mind.
But like with AI, I am sure that there are certain things that we should be wary of. But it's probably not the long term sci-fi trope inspired alarmist predictions.
