People are way more scared of genetic engineering now than they will be when genetic engineering actually gets really dangerous
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We are going to do beautiful and terrible things with our growing mastery of genetic machinery, but I think the model that people have of the terrible things is based on experiences from the long 20th century that are no longer applicable
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The idea that broad access to genetic engineering technology will lead to a collapse in human diversity is completely clueless
We're on the precipice of a magnificent fanout in the human cladogram, and I'm excited to see it happen in my lifetime
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You get convergence on a single phenotypic norm if and only if the power to dictate phenotypic norms becomes concentrated around a Woodrow Wilson or Josef Mengele
Hundreds of thousands of indie genemodders are unlikely to produce a standardized army of cruel ubermenschen
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