melfie@lemy.lol 15 hours ago
I feel like this kind of thing can create a “Great Filter” kind of situation. Tech works great and most humans are genetically engineered now, but wait, why is everyone off before 30? Nope, it’s not the genetic engineering, and anyone who says that is a tinfoil hat wearer. Ok, actually, the data is in and it is the genetic engineering, but it made a bunch of billionaires even richer, so all good, right?
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
If that were the case, wouldn’t the ones who didn’t get the genetic engineering be far more likely to reproduce and stride along with natural selection? I have a hard time seeing that event ever happening, short of the human population en mass deciding to engineer every baby on the planet before a single generation of which could have lived life and been studied for its effects.