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Robert Evans

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Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

Yeah. That's nuts. That's also, what do you consider a defect? Right. And I, I know this is actually tricky. The ethics here are really tricky, right? If I was having a kid and I learned like, Hey, this, this future potential child would have a heart defect. We found evidence of, and we can fix it in utero. Of course you'd want to fix that as a parent.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

Yeah. That's nuts. That's also, what do you consider a defect? Right. And I, I know this is actually tricky. The ethics here are really tricky, right? If I was having a kid and I learned like, Hey, this, this future potential child would have a heart defect. We found evidence of, and we can fix it in utero. Of course you'd want to fix that as a parent.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

Yeah. That's nuts. That's also, what do you consider a defect? Right. And I, I know this is actually tricky. The ethics here are really tricky, right? If I was having a kid and I learned like, Hey, this, this future potential child would have a heart defect. We found evidence of, and we can fix it in utero. Of course you'd want to fix that as a parent.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

What about if they're like, hey, your child, they'll be perfectly healthy, perfectly intelligent, but they'll be on the autism spectrum or they'll have ADHD. Yeah. And they give you an option to zap that because that kind of feels like genocide to me. Right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

What about if they're like, hey, your child, they'll be perfectly healthy, perfectly intelligent, but they'll be on the autism spectrum or they'll have ADHD. Yeah. And they give you an option to zap that because that kind of feels like genocide to me. Right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

What about if they're like, hey, your child, they'll be perfectly healthy, perfectly intelligent, but they'll be on the autism spectrum or they'll have ADHD. Yeah. And they give you an option to zap that because that kind of feels like genocide to me. Right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

Yes. Yeah. And this is something we will have to grapple with, and it's not going to be easy, because obviously, if you're like, hey, your kid's going to be, has this genetic condition that will mean that they will be constantly in horrible pain for every second of their short life, but we can fix that right now. Who wouldn't want to fix that?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

Yes. Yeah. And this is something we will have to grapple with, and it's not going to be easy, because obviously, if you're like, hey, your kid's going to be, has this genetic condition that will mean that they will be constantly in horrible pain for every second of their short life, but we can fix that right now. Who wouldn't want to fix that?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

Yes. Yeah. And this is something we will have to grapple with, and it's not going to be easy, because obviously, if you're like, hey, your kid's going to be, has this genetic condition that will mean that they will be constantly in horrible pain for every second of their short life, but we can fix that right now. Who wouldn't want to fix that?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

But then how do you build guardrails in so that you're not just saying, we're going to get rid of everyone who's different, right? Yep.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

But then how do you build guardrails in so that you're not just saying, we're going to get rid of everyone who's different, right? Yep.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

But then how do you build guardrails in so that you're not just saying, we're going to get rid of everyone who's different, right? Yep.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

Right, right.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

Right, right.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

Right, right.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

Yeah, or Wang, who's like, none of the kids of my employees can be defective, right? Like, this is all just like, it gets really bad very, very quickly, right? And it's also like, you know, Church makes this big claim of like, I'm a big believer in diversity. He talks about like, I have narcolepsy, and I have a lot of my greatest ideas when I kind of have these quick narcoleptic naps and stuff.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

Yeah, or Wang, who's like, none of the kids of my employees can be defective, right? Like, this is all just like, it gets really bad very, very quickly, right? And it's also like, you know, Church makes this big claim of like, I'm a big believer in diversity. He talks about like, I have narcolepsy, and I have a lot of my greatest ideas when I kind of have these quick narcoleptic naps and stuff.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

Yeah, or Wang, who's like, none of the kids of my employees can be defective, right? Like, this is all just like, it gets really bad very, very quickly, right? And it's also like, you know, Church makes this big claim of like, I'm a big believer in diversity. He talks about like, I have narcolepsy, and I have a lot of my greatest ideas when I kind of have these quick narcoleptic naps and stuff.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

He's a big believer in neurodiversity, according to what he says. But also the science and the people he's working with are...

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

He's a big believer in neurodiversity, according to what he says. But also the science and the people he's working with are...