How bad could it be? Ethan Hawke succeeds in the movie even though he’s got no real genetic qualifications.
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interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agojsomae, do you want Gattaca ? Because that’s how you get Gattaca !
And next for sale we have this worker with very small hands, through multiple generation of human breeding we have developped this fine pure bred specimen perfectly adapted to reaching into tight spaces and machinery, its mind is docile and obedient and doesn’t get spooked easily by the loud sound of working high speed hydraulic presses. Very agile with tools and can read schematics but no artistic ability nor speech as a side effect of the genetic modification, on the plus side, they cannot form unions.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Ask Jude Law inside the incinerator how things are going for him
And astronaut boy is not going to be normal
after the surveillance state twisted him like a pretzel so he could avoid detection
jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Gattaca is a great warning about what could happen if we have gene-elitism. If you’ve forgotten, the premise of Gattaca is that the main character isn’t genetically enhanced, but he’s still sufficiently capable; it’s only stigma, not an actual lack of ability, which is a threat to his career. We already live in a world where some people are privileged and some people are not, and despite this, there’s been a Black POTUS, women astronauts, and so on. That a lack of privilege is a barrier that can be overcome is basically central to liberal ideology; I don’t see it disappearing in the west any time soon.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I think GATTACA is more a warning that gene editing will become a luxury of the wealthy, and inherently will be elitist, with no realistic way to separate the two. It will just become the new rich and connected qualifier, doesn’t matter the actual capacities of the people, the one with the money, and connections, will be much more likely to get the thing.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
In the USA, health-care is already a luxury of the wealthy. Perhaps if we improve the IQ of our population with free access to polygenic scoring and IVF, we’ll stop voting in lunatics who benefit the wealthy.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah, you get the older, less advanced, gene editing tools, while the rich maintain their lock into the cutting edge. The new marker will be a combination of age and generation of genetic tech applied. This is also considering that it will be a broad application of the tech that is available to the lower classes, not just things that make them better soldiers and laborers.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Imagine if we got genetic engineering back when everybody inherited their parent’s job. People named Smith would look like dwarves.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Yes, most humans would be genetically designed living tools to serve the few real, pure bred, unmodified humans
For them liberation would only mean death, not that they could imagine life in different way
for copyright reasons, they would also all be sterile of course
jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I find it surprising that you think the rich and powerful would not choose to genetically enhance themselves (their children) to be smarter, more attractive, etc. They would surely be the first to do so.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Yes it does make sense that they would give up their identity, their being, their humanity just for a leg up to win a place in the machine, for a shot at running the machine, king of the shit hill, that does explain a lot.