Presentation: Tara
Beyond
1. What is CRISPR and what does it often produce?
2. What moral imperative does Julian Savulescu say we have?
3. How have efforts to control evolution changed over the last century and a half?
4. What are eutelegenesis and Bokanovsky's Process?
5. What did Matt Ridley say would save us?
6. Who is Ray Kurzweil and what is SU?
7. Who is Raymond McCauley and what did he predict?
8. What is Peter Diamandis's Orwellian vision?
DQ
- Is it bad that CRISPR has received so much attention from science journalists and pundits in popular media?
- Would it be unethical not to use an available AND reliable technology to produce "better" children? How should we understand "better"?176
- Will eugenics become "acceptable and widespread again"? 177
- Is it appropriate for researchers to aim to cure diseased molecules, rather than patients? 179
- What do you think of "procreative beneficence"? 181
- Do you agree that happier, healthier humans are more likely to result from a focus on nurture, not nature? 184
- Is the Singularity near?
- Are medical tricorders coming soon? 190
- Are Singularitarians mostly "confirmed atheists" and "progressive capitalist utopians"? 191
- Are you thrilled and concerned about the future of "enhancement"? 193
- Are you as dispirited by transhumanists as Corey Pein?
Code Breaker (CB) Part 2, CRISPR
- What was Francisco Mojica's really amazing discovery? 74
- What hadn't the microbiologists yet done, when Doudna meet with Jillian Banfield? 80
- How did Martin Jinkek describe RNA? 85
- More coming soon...
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