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Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease
(www.the-independent.com)
Wait a tic. I've seen this movie.
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Anytime any non scientist wants to genetically engineer babies you should get very worried
When crypto or ai bros want to do that get outright scared
Sounds like he's trying to create his own Musk-esq mythos.
so all Lemmy takes from this article is that Sam Altman is gay.
I thought this was a commonly known fact. He wasn't hiding it.
Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel.
We have enough data points to suggest that being gay doesn't insulate you from being greedy and corrupt.
That's important, too.
Gay people are just as shitty as everyone else. They're no better or no worse. They just have sex with people of the same gender.
Who you want to fuck REALLY doesn't matter, like, at all, imo, in the grand scheme of things.
Unless you want to fuck everyone.
We have a code of conduct training at work that includes and anti corruption segment (nothing weird, just stuff like "a vendor buying lunch at a sales meeting is fine, but no gifts or having lunch at extremely expensive places", and "some places give small symbolic gifts around holidays, usually a pastry. That's fine. Do not accept a $500 pastry")
A couple years ago they updated the module and the person engaging in non-obvious corrupt business practices became gay in passing. The overwhelming response by a lot of the company was "yay! We made it guys! They realized that we like bribes too! I feel so seen".
If someone was going to accept a $500 pastry, I'd put my money on the gay guy.
(It's me.)
Why would it? I have never thought to myself, this seems like a bad person but he is gay so maybe not. :)
In a different time, it was popular to think that capitalism would be better if minorities were winning at it.
A few girlbosses and Diddys later, I'd like to think we know better.
Yeah, now we have a bigger pool to recruit our sociopaths from. Big win, huh?
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Wait, this guy's gay?
Neoliberal utopia. The wealthy elite destroying the world and forcing eugenics on the masses fly a rainbow flag
Its working.
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Odd way to learn altman is gay.
Kinda shocked I've never seen a "worlds richest gay man!" Headline. That feels like low hanging fru-
Gay is only bad if the poors do it, of course /s
Does Thiel not have more money?
Thiel killed the outlet that outed him.
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I worry more about that he is a full blown psycho.
Honestly I don't think it's any of our business. Even rich assholes are allowed to have a private life. Although with some (Musk, Trump) that private life is so fucked up it's impossible to ignore, but generally I'm totally fine with not knowing who they fuck.
TIL Sam is gay
Pretty sure he and others like him are not gay; If they want to engineer babies, it's for a reason...
The ability to reduce diseases and disorders in newborns sounds wonderful, until you find out which techno-fascist is behind the movement.
The other issue I have is that this is an example of a recurring issue in which the tech obsessed ultra wealthy declare their plan to solve a problem for which a very straightforward policy solution already exists.
We don't need tech to extend lives or feed the hungry. We just need to remove the paywalls to existing resources.
Yeah, here's an easy way to prevent most birth defects:
Free nutritious food
Regulating toxic chemicals
Prenatal education and healthcare
None of that will deal with an inherited genetic disorder
I think nutrition has a bigger effect than genetic variability
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The same guy who admitted he couldn't raise his child without ChatGPT btw.
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the headline misspelled eugenics.
Ah yes, please give me more of that sickle cell anemia.
ah, ok, so GATTACA is up next. got it.
In before this turns into "I want my baby to have blue eyes and 150 IQ"
It's an interesting ethical debate.
I have a hereditary condition which passes only by the X chromosome, so should I, as a man, abort a daughter? Because now the risk is too high and I've elected to simply not have children. It would be great if I could fix the single swapped base pair that would otherwise cause disfigurement and life-long health problems.
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As long as they wait until they’re 18.
They do realize that this is how most zombie apocalypse movies start. Genetic tapering to stop diseases.
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