@cmuratori The latter is an easier process problem, yet has gone unsolved by some of the most well-funded companies in the world.
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@cmuratori Everything you have ever eaten was genetically modified by people (and things) that had no idea what they were doing.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@tom_forsyth Genetically modified means directly modifying the genes. There's a difference between that and the genes modifying themselves.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@cmuratori What about when viruses modify them? Or replication errors modify them?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @tom_forsyth
@tom_forsyth Not sure what you mean - those are out of our control, so it's not like we can consider preventing that from happening?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@cmuratori It's like worrying about the LHC creating black holes when there's cosmic rays beating the shit out of the atmosphere every day.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@cmuratori The scale of what we are intentionally doing is pretty modest compared to the crap that constantly pounds on our genome.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@cmuratori On the other hand, letting BigAgro free reign - fuck no. They're perfectly capable of incidental evil in the pursuit of profit.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@cmuratori So you need to separate the tech (GMO) and its concerns from "Monsanto are evil" (which is obvious).1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@cmuratori And the obvious problem is - usually, only giant corps have the funding to do GMO. So it's hard to separate them in practice.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@tom_forsyth Yes - although really, that is a problem with expensive (commercializable) research in general, not just with GMOs :(
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