Robert Evans
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It's not my business. It's a very Werner Von Braun. When the rockets go up, who knows where they come down? That's not my department, says Werner Von Braun.
Look, man, I'm in the homunculi business. I'm not in the where homunculi go business, you know? He told CBS, we're not necessarily opposed to enhancement if everybody gets access to it simultaneously. And again, but there's no, how do you do that? You're not talking about how that would ever happen. You're just saying, obviously, that's what I want. Yeah.
Look, man, I'm in the homunculi business. I'm not in the where homunculi go business, you know? He told CBS, we're not necessarily opposed to enhancement if everybody gets access to it simultaneously. And again, but there's no, how do you do that? You're not talking about how that would ever happen. You're just saying, obviously, that's what I want. Yeah.
Look, man, I'm in the homunculi business. I'm not in the where homunculi go business, you know? He told CBS, we're not necessarily opposed to enhancement if everybody gets access to it simultaneously. And again, but there's no, how do you do that? You're not talking about how that would ever happen. You're just saying, obviously, that's what I want. Yeah.
Are you going to turn down millions of dollars or billions of dollars to make sure that happens? Yeah. Unless somebody guarantees it somehow. Are you? How? Doesn't seem real. Doesn't seem likely. Anyway, he doesn't propose any way to ensure this, nor do I believe he truly cares. Scott Pelley, who's the journalist who interviewed Church, made this statement after talking to him.
Are you going to turn down millions of dollars or billions of dollars to make sure that happens? Yeah. Unless somebody guarantees it somehow. Are you? How? Doesn't seem real. Doesn't seem likely. Anyway, he doesn't propose any way to ensure this, nor do I believe he truly cares. Scott Pelley, who's the journalist who interviewed Church, made this statement after talking to him.
Are you going to turn down millions of dollars or billions of dollars to make sure that happens? Yeah. Unless somebody guarantees it somehow. Are you? How? Doesn't seem real. Doesn't seem likely. Anyway, he doesn't propose any way to ensure this, nor do I believe he truly cares. Scott Pelley, who's the journalist who interviewed Church, made this statement after talking to him.
He doesn't see a great distinction between being able to travel 550 miles an hour on an airliner or changing somebody's genome in order to make them maybe cognitively more astute. There's a big difference.
He doesn't see a great distinction between being able to travel 550 miles an hour on an airliner or changing somebody's genome in order to make them maybe cognitively more astute. There's a big difference.
He doesn't see a great distinction between being able to travel 550 miles an hour on an airliner or changing somebody's genome in order to make them maybe cognitively more astute. There's a big difference.
They are both dead, but I do think there's a difference. Now, I know me saying, like, I don't trust that this guy cares about ethics. I think he's lying about caring about equality here. Maybe that just seems like old Robert being an asshole because all the bastards he reads about. There's other good reasons to doubt George Church here.
They are both dead, but I do think there's a difference. Now, I know me saying, like, I don't trust that this guy cares about ethics. I think he's lying about caring about equality here. Maybe that just seems like old Robert being an asshole because all the bastards he reads about. There's other good reasons to doubt George Church here.
They are both dead, but I do think there's a difference. Now, I know me saying, like, I don't trust that this guy cares about ethics. I think he's lying about caring about equality here. Maybe that just seems like old Robert being an asshole because all the bastards he reads about. There's other good reasons to doubt George Church here.
And I want to quote from that article from the Center for Genetics and Society. The massive Chinese company, BGI, sees synthetic biology as a promising field, and in 2017 launched the George Church Institute of Regenesis in Shenzhen.
And I want to quote from that article from the Center for Genetics and Society. The massive Chinese company, BGI, sees synthetic biology as a promising field, and in 2017 launched the George Church Institute of Regenesis in Shenzhen.
And I want to quote from that article from the Center for Genetics and Society. The massive Chinese company, BGI, sees synthetic biology as a promising field, and in 2017 launched the George Church Institute of Regenesis in Shenzhen.
BGI's corporate culture has been criticized as eugenics-like, and the company is currently involved in state surveillance and harassment of millions of Uyghurs, a Muslim minority group in Xinjiang. Oh, man. It's not great that the company that starts the institute named after you has been criticized as eugenics-like or for surveilling a minority being targeted by the state.
BGI's corporate culture has been criticized as eugenics-like, and the company is currently involved in state surveillance and harassment of millions of Uyghurs, a Muslim minority group in Xinjiang. Oh, man. It's not great that the company that starts the institute named after you has been criticized as eugenics-like or for surveilling a minority being targeted by the state.
BGI's corporate culture has been criticized as eugenics-like, and the company is currently involved in state surveillance and harassment of millions of Uyghurs, a Muslim minority group in Xinjiang. Oh, man. It's not great that the company that starts the institute named after you has been criticized as eugenics-like or for surveilling a minority being targeted by the state.
None of those are good things.