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      Yeah these days it’s just altering in vitro. We have the tech, but we are rightfully frightened by it. It’s hard to deploy in a way that it does good and is not abused

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          The sad thing is we do have the potential to shape a healthier human race. The potential to cure all genetic diseases and have a better future. We have the technology today.

          Unfortunately we cannot be trusted to use it. It will 100% be used to target minorities and harm people to create something racists ideal. It’s kinda sad

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                Technology isnt just things that have batteries and go ‘beep’. Technology is also systems of organization and coordination.

                So no. No we don’t.

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                  It’s the technology that goes “beep” the organization and coordination is what I would define as the “will” and that’s what we lack.

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                    Organization and coordination are technology though. They don’t just happen. We create tools like phone trees and group chats and meeting structures and ‘roles’ and junk. Sometimes we do it in really horrible ways like feudalism/capitalism. That’s no less technology than a faster less fail prone way to close an artery, or a knowledge of what parts of the EM spectrum will travel best here, and how to use them to communicate.

                    Fundamentallu capitalist conception of what a thing is; that a think is the bit you can possess, can own, and nothing else can realky be operated on or understood.