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re: Synthetic organisms are about to challenge what 'alive' really means

Posted on 1/9/19 at 5:29 pm to
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
135024 posts
Posted on 1/9/19 at 5:29 pm to
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I do like the idea of organ transplants for certain.


Okay, so we harvest the organs...is it ethical to use the unused portion for food? I could be like veal.

Now i’m Imagining hundreds of years from now, when future peoples are studying this.


As you can see, Neo-native Americans used every part of the clone.”
Posted by LSUMBA91
The Holy City
Member since Nov 2007
251 posts
Posted on 1/9/19 at 5:57 pm to
Nice Dune reference. Maybe I could get some new knee cartilage out of this new synthetic substance.
Posted by IceTiger
Really hot place
Member since Oct 2007
26584 posts
Posted on 1/9/19 at 6:05 pm to
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It brings up interesting legal/ethical questions


Haven't we ploughed through this issue in about 500 movies to include Blade Runner, Solo, etc...

It's not as if it hasn't been mulled over by Asimov 70 years ago...
Posted by IceTiger
Really hot place
Member since Oct 2007
26584 posts
Posted on 1/9/19 at 6:06 pm to
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fr33manator


Downvote for being gross, fr33
Posted by Cycledude
Member since Jul 2018
2394 posts
Posted on 1/9/19 at 6:11 pm to
There is so much potential good. We could create 10 lb sac a lait, 250lb white tail bucks in Louisiana, fruit trees as hardy and large as oaks, etc.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
106021 posts
Posted on 1/9/19 at 6:21 pm to
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There is so much potential good. We could create 10 lb sac a lait, 250lb white tail bucks in Louisiana, fruit trees as hardy and large as oaks, etc.


Alabama will have 700 lb linemen.
Posted by oliveandblue
Member since Nov 2014
1761 posts
Posted on 1/9/19 at 6:28 pm to
This sounds like the origins of Detroit:Become Human.
Posted by DeafJam73
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2010
19122 posts
Posted on 1/9/19 at 6:37 pm to
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Silly writer thinks the genie can be put back in the bottle.



We spent all this time wondering if we could, we never stopped to think if we should. Life...uh...finds a way.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
135024 posts
Posted on 1/9/19 at 7:19 pm to
It’s satire bro
Posted by HueyP
Lubbock
Member since Nov 2008
3155 posts
Posted on 1/9/19 at 8:24 pm to
Looks like a mad race to exterminate the human race between these guys and AI.
Posted by foshizzle
Washington DC metro
Member since Mar 2008
40599 posts
Posted on 1/9/19 at 8:36 pm to
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How long until all the abused sex robots revolt and start murdering the frick out of us? It's only a matter of time...


Be better at sex with them and you'll have nothing to worry about.
Posted by ForeverEllisHugh
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2016
16673 posts
Posted on 1/9/19 at 8:41 pm to
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if we should put an end to these experiments before it is too late.


There’s no “if” here. All of this needs to be stopped and destroyed with the quickness.
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
120445 posts
Posted on 1/9/19 at 8:55 pm to
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Silly writer thinks the genie can be put back in the bottle.



I mean, it can’t. I do think Artificial Intelligence is a ridiculous term given they will be instantly far more intelligent than us. Synthetic organisms is a better term.
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