dgkimpton
dgkimpton t1_jbxsazl wrote
Reply to comment by prionustevh in More than 200 people have been treated with experimental CRISPR therapies by rherbom2k
Hmm, alright, I certainly expect gene editing therapies to be available to a much wider audience than billionaires - even if they tried to avoid it someone somewhere would be open to making money by offering it to the merely wealthy instead of the obscenely wealthy.
dgkimpton t1_jbx4kia wrote
Reply to comment by prionustevh in More than 200 people have been treated with experimental CRISPR therapies by rherbom2k
Also, how do you square "upper middle class" with not being wealthy? I definitely consider them wealthy. Frankly even poor Westerners are wealthy beyond belief compared to a significant portion of the planet. Where do you draw the line?
Medicine/healthcare has always started by being available to those who could afford it, and eventually become more widespread. This is no different. It's insane to expect it to work any other way because the development costs have to be paid somehow.
dgkimpton t1_jbqepb7 wrote
Reply to comment by rherbom2k in More than 200 people have been treated with experimental CRISPR therapies by rherbom2k
Yes and also No. We're already in the situation where only the wealthy get the best treatments, why should we be especially concerned about CRISPR based variants?
dgkimpton t1_ja8icel wrote
Reply to comment by nastratin in This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin
That's... yeah. Jesus.
dgkimpton t1_iz0xlyk wrote
Reply to comment by Reddituser45005 in Google says they have made a significant advance in allowing humans to communicate with robots using natural language, and claim an "order of magnitude" increase in capabilities over previous approaches. by lughnasadh
Indeed. It's only a tiny hop from "unskilled labour" (which is inherently badly named) to doing "skilled labour". Programmers like to joke that it's OK to make an AI because they will at least be needed to program the AI's... but fail to realise that a general purpose AI that can outthink a human will quickly become able to program itself. We'll be left only with manual labour, and even that for only a short period until robot bodies are cheap enough.
dgkimpton t1_ixlm8q4 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Vaccine to prevent UTIs could be taken as a dissolving tablet by tonymmorley
That would be life changing for so many people. Innovations like this offer hope for the future in the way few other things can. I'm crossing my fingers this translates easily to Humans and is widely rolled out (I would imagine if it isn't rolled out widely we'll just get mutations developing that overcome the new immune capabilities).
dgkimpton t1_jc3eo56 wrote
Reply to What do you call morning wood that wakes you up? by FunnyGoNow
Haha. Good one.