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the other interesting implication of artificial wombs is: you can have several pregnancies at once now

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so I wouldn't be surprised if this practice were adopted in some quiverfull communities and you'd get one litter per month

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petition to forcibly send everyone in this thread who misunderstands what an "artificial womb" is to medschool

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this is even worse than the "AI" idiocy that's going on

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afaiui so far it's a better incubator?

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yup. this doesn't solve, uh, basically any of the hard problems that stand between us and pod babies

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(interestingly though in terms of real-world impact it's going to be immense. changing earliest time a fetus is viable alone 'd do that)

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when reducing this time, at what ε would one run into one of those hard problems?

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at the very least you'd have to let the blastocyst implant somewhere, and there's a complicated molecular handshake going on

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that and you'll need ova; but honestly once we have enough knowledge to tackle this we could probably induce parthenogenesis much easier

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