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The book explores the implications of genetic manipulation, particularly in the context of China and their ambition to lead the world in advanced technology. It discusses the potential for genetic engineering to create a new class of superhumans, raising concerns about the potential for societal imbalance and power dynamics.
In genetic technologies, when last year the book Hacking Dom was already in production in November when it was announced that these first genetically engineered babies had been born in China.
— Episode: #1294 - Jamie Metzl
Episode: #1294 - Jamie Metzl
The book explores the implications of genetic manipulation, particularly in the context of China and their ambition to lead the world in advanced technology. It discusses the potential for genetic engineering to create a new class of superhumans, raising concerns about the potential for societal imbalance and power dynamics.
In genetic technologies, when last year the book Hacking Dom was already in production in November when it was announced that these first genetically engineered babies had been born in China.
So I said it had to add a few sentences saying and it just happened in October of 2018.
So China is on that path and we need to recognize that on one hand the United States needs to be competitive. On the other hand, we don't want a runaway arms race of the human race and that's why we need to find this balance between national ambition and some kind of global rules that's really hard to do.
My my my one of my sci-fi novels Genesis code was about this so China as you know has their system of their Olympic sports schools and the way it works is they test kids all around the country so let's just say it's it's diving and they identify what are the core skills of a diver what do you need and then they go around the country they test kids and then they bring a bunch of them to the Olympic sports schools and then they you know they get them all involved and then some kids are the best of those kids and the best of those kids and then you get with these champs that's why China advanced so so rapidly but what happens if they're doing that but it's at the genetic level.
If you're China and you kind of have this Plato's Republic model of the world and we're going to kind of identify the genetic or maybe manipulate these genetic superstars to be our greatest scientists and mathematicians and business leaders and political leaders like there's a model that you can imagine for for how to do it.
