Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service (github.com)
36 points by saikatsg 1h ago 8 comments
How and where will agents ship software? (instantdb.com)
122 points by stopachka 14h ago 58 comments
The Silicon Valley push to breed super-babies
19 ironyman 18 7/16/2025, 12:01:29 PM washingtonpost.com ↗
If we have the ability to screen embryos to determine which ones are likely to have the least health problems, and to live as fulfilling and successful a life of possible, do we not then have a moral imperative to do this?
Supposing it were free: to choose NOT to do it, would be to say, "I don't care if I bring avoidable pain and suffering into the world."
What assurances and real resolutions do you have that what they market is actually true; and the baby your gf is carrying isn't in fact a mini-musk with no related DNA from you. Like a cuckoo bird.
Interestingly the term cuckold, referring to a man whose wife was unfaithful, originates from the Cuckoo bird, where the bird is tricked into raising children biologically not their own; as happens with brood parasitism.
These advances bring into question long-term fitness and survivability. We know mono-cultures die out quite easily.
Before long we might have a "Surface" event, like what happened in that TV show. There are things that cannot be undone, and there are blind people more than willing to ensure those things are full steam ahead.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Soviet_man
They [0] will do it anyway. Ethics, risks and morals be damned.
Dystopia capitalism is highly profitable.
[0] https://mynucleus.com/
And, worse yet, it inherently encodes a poor tax into the very fiber of a human being that will exacerbate inequality. Something that will only grow as the designer genes become even more effective.
I guess, in the end, the rich will claim to be justified when they call the poor "less human".
Also I am surprised you can take five cells from an embryo with no effect! I guess at this point that’s probably well-proven through more basic screens.