Re:Biology is the New Tech: Letter from a conference on CRISPR
by gumby on Sunday July 28, 2019 @12:55PM
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Evolution is a massive parallel computation system using heavily bummed code. Nobody really has any idea the value of any gene (much less how it interacts environmentally) on a systemic level.
The cost of wiping out depression could be a lack of creativity. Which will be more valuable in a society 30 years hence? Nobody has any idea of course; that's the value of evolution: it continually run a set of multivariate experiments.
Good luck to you and your kids; I honestly hope it works out well for you all. But based on centuries of fad "engineering" mostly at the environmental level (teaching, nutrition fads) it all below the noise floor.
The cost of wiping out depression could be a lack of creativity. Which will be more valuable in a society 30 years hence? Nobody has any idea of course; that's the value of evolution: it continually run a set of multivariate experiments.
Good luck to you and your kids; I honestly hope it works out well for you all. But based on centuries of fad "engineering" mostly at the environmental level (teaching, nutrition fads) it all below the noise floor.