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Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoNo, because very advanced levels of genetic engineering are unlike anything we historically have done, as is automation that basically replaces all human as the general work force. They are not apples to apples comparable.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
advanced genetic engineering would be cool but that’s not polygenic selection.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
yes, I have been trying to express that what we have at the moment is not so much the problem as the advancement and what is to come. I am also not saying that we should not do these things, I am saying when do do them we must not allow it be controlled, via IP ownership, or otherwise, by a private entity. As things stand the medical industry holds far too much sway with their ownership of things people need to live, or live well. They are also actively working against social medicine, with a current focus on the UK, and a variety of developing nations. They should not be afforded the power imbalance such ownership allows them now, and as things like this progress, it will only make that power imbalance worse. Every technology is a double edged sword, and the more one affects society the more we need to prevent the cutting edged aimed at us. I could not dare to guess the ways in which we could be impacted by future technology, much how people in the 90s could not have envisioned the societal issues that are arising now, such as the loneliness epidemic, and the structural loss of actual ownership, or any rights to anything we have. Sure we had a pretty good guess that propaganda would run wild, and it has, but many other things that have huge impacts are things no one was thinking about even 20 years ago.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Well, I do agree we should completely rework IP law in general. But I wouldn’t want to delay progress in genetic engineering until we can restructure society. It’s important to improve the human condition, even if society isn’t able to allow equitable access to every technology yet.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Tell me, what exactly is the threshold where a private entity owning society directing technology crosses to where it should no longer have that control over it? Define when allowing technology to be privately owned goes from where we are, to “oh shit, they already have complete control”? Because I would prefer to restructure how ownership of ideas works before we have to destroy society in order to course correct.