🇾 🇪 🇿 🇿 🇪 🇾@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agoWhen rich people can edit their kids DNA won't that just lock everyone else out and create a new class?message-squaremessage-square212fedilinkarrow-up1295arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1287arrow-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 · 2 days agomessage-square212fedilinkfile-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-up9·2 days ago“Fittest” never meant “best”, just “most capable of effective adaptation”, FWIW.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days ago“Luck” meaning, having a lucky mutation that’s beneficial to reproducing in the current ecosystem.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days 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-up2·2 days 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