Re: dawn of neurohacks

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Sun Nov 26 2000 - 14:12:43 MST


Wanna bet? This is the kind of thing where after a few people publicly
start doing it, I bet the rest will come running to do it too. Especially
if these are seen as "naturally occuring genes" that many children are
simply "missing".

Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> Brian Atkins writes,
> > I bet that splicing these genes into rich people's pre-kids will be
> > common by 2004. May or may not be in time to help much with Singularity.
>
> I doubt this. We aren't seeing gene splicing or genetic engineering of
> offspring now, despite many useful genes already being discovered.
>
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