From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Jun 25 2003 - 15:16:51 MDT
--- "Peter C. McCluskey" <pcm@rahul.net> wrote:
> mez@apexnano.com (Ramez Naam) writes:
> >From: Adrian Tymes [mailto:wingcat@pacbell.net]
> >> ...okay, I'm spacing here. There's a standard
> retort
> >> to the fear that genetic enhancement will lead to
> a
> >> single genotype becoming dominant - much moreso,
> by a
> >> much higher percentage (at least of those with
> access
> >> to this) having more 9s in their 99.999...%
> similar
> >> DNA, than is presently the norm - with the
> remaining
> >> holdouts becoming discriminated against for that
> >> reason alone. But I forget what that retort is
> just
> >> now.
> >
> >I'm not aware of a standard retort here. If there
> is one I'd like to
> >hear it.
>
> I don't know what the standard retort is, but one
> obvious approach is
> to figure out why evolution has produced diverse
> genes rather than one
> dominant genotype.
I think that was more or less it. "We're just hacking
ourselves, not Nature. We've still gotta play by the
rules of reality. Anyone that tries to make everyone
into themselves just sets themselves up for trouble -
or, depending on how you look at it, just makes it
easier for those who stay different to get more
moolah. If you're worried about what if you're the
only one not changing, well, are you really going to
object to something that makes you rich?"
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