🆈🅴🆉🆉🅴🆈@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 hours agoWhen rich people can edit their kids DNA won't that just lock everyone else out and create a new class?message-squaremessage-square140fedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1149arrow-down1message-squareWhen rich people can edit their kids DNA won't that just lock everyone else out and create a new class?🆈🅴🆉🆉🅴🆈@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 hours agomessage-square140fedilinkfile-text
CRISPR and other tools aren’t science fiction anymore. If the wealthy get there first, what happens to everyone else?
minus-squareØπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 hours ago“Fittest” never meant “best”, just “most capable of effective adaptation”, FWIW.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 hours ago“Luck” meaning, having a lucky mutation that’s beneficial to reproducing in the current ecosystem.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoLuck as in ‘lucky enough to have your entire species wiped out by a single unforeseen catastrophic event or climatic change’
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoDinosaurs would have evolved into more exotic forms if they hadn’t been wiped out by an asteroid We might unfortunately end ourselves through our own actions in a similar way
“Fittest” never meant “best”, just “most capable of effective adaptation”, FWIW.
“Luck” meaning, having a lucky mutation that’s beneficial to reproducing in the current ecosystem.
Luck as in ‘lucky enough to have your entire species wiped out by a single unforeseen catastrophic event or climatic change’
Dinosaurs would have evolved into more exotic forms if they hadn’t been wiped out by an asteroid
We might unfortunately end ourselves through our own actions in a similar way