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Robert Evans

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41298 total appearances

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

Yeah, I don't like that either. So basically, every... Dating app could use Digidate's technology in order to have their users send in their DNA and get their genome sequenced to stop them from meeting genetically incompatible people. Now, genome sequencing costs like 750 bucks. So obviously this is not...

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

Yeah, I don't like that either. So basically, every... Dating app could use Digidate's technology in order to have their users send in their DNA and get their genome sequenced to stop them from meeting genetically incompatible people. Now, genome sequencing costs like 750 bucks. So obviously this is not...

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

Yeah, I don't like that either. So basically, every... Dating app could use Digidate's technology in order to have their users send in their DNA and get their genome sequenced to stop them from meeting genetically incompatible people. Now, genome sequencing costs like 750 bucks. So obviously this is not...

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

super easy to pencil out financially for a dating app, which generally is not that expensive. But Church thinks you could offset this by increasing the subscription price of dating apps. I don't know if I think this is a great business, hasn't taken off yet.

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

super easy to pencil out financially for a dating app, which generally is not that expensive. But Church thinks you could offset this by increasing the subscription price of dating apps. I don't know if I think this is a great business, hasn't taken off yet.

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

super easy to pencil out financially for a dating app, which generally is not that expensive. But Church thinks you could offset this by increasing the subscription price of dating apps. I don't know if I think this is a great business, hasn't taken off yet.

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

But as usual, he puts what is effectively eugenics, like this is a eugenics dating app, in humanitarian terms, claiming it would eradicate huge numbers of diseases, which cost, quote, about a trillion dollars a year worldwide.

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

But as usual, he puts what is effectively eugenics, like this is a eugenics dating app, in humanitarian terms, claiming it would eradicate huge numbers of diseases, which cost, quote, about a trillion dollars a year worldwide.

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

But as usual, he puts what is effectively eugenics, like this is a eugenics dating app, in humanitarian terms, claiming it would eradicate huge numbers of diseases, which cost, quote, about a trillion dollars a year worldwide.

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

Again, when it comes to horrific diseases, I'm all for stopping horrible diseases that harm people, but there's a lot of other ethical concerns when you start talking about this shit, and you're just not dealing with them at all.

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

Again, when it comes to horrific diseases, I'm all for stopping horrible diseases that harm people, but there's a lot of other ethical concerns when you start talking about this shit, and you're just not dealing with them at all.

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

Again, when it comes to horrific diseases, I'm all for stopping horrible diseases that harm people, but there's a lot of other ethical concerns when you start talking about this shit, and you're just not dealing with them at all.

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

As a guy who is like, I'm not neurotypical, and I think there's huge benefit in having people with brains that work different be involved in science, you're also creating an app to put an end to that, maybe, and you're not talking about that problem at all. Yeah.

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

As a guy who is like, I'm not neurotypical, and I think there's huge benefit in having people with brains that work different be involved in science, you're also creating an app to put an end to that, maybe, and you're not talking about that problem at all. Yeah.

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

As a guy who is like, I'm not neurotypical, and I think there's huge benefit in having people with brains that work different be involved in science, you're also creating an app to put an end to that, maybe, and you're not talking about that problem at all. Yeah.

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

Because it's like if some scientist is like, hey, there's a disease where people's skin is born inside out, we want to stop that. I'd be like, yeah, man, I don't think we gain anything from babies having their skin inside out, right? Right. But that's just never where it ends, you know?

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

Because it's like if some scientist is like, hey, there's a disease where people's skin is born inside out, we want to stop that. I'd be like, yeah, man, I don't think we gain anything from babies having their skin inside out, right? Right. But that's just never where it ends, you know?

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

Because it's like if some scientist is like, hey, there's a disease where people's skin is born inside out, we want to stop that. I'd be like, yeah, man, I don't think we gain anything from babies having their skin inside out, right? Right. But that's just never where it ends, you know?

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

It's going to be the color we like. It's not going to be the color you like. Right. What other stuff are you wanting to do with baby skin? This got announced, this dating service, for the first time during an appearance Church made on 60 Minutes. He later claimed that the section about Digidate wasn't supposed to air. Like, oh, I had no idea they were putting that in the show. I was just talking.

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

It's going to be the color we like. It's not going to be the color you like. Right. What other stuff are you wanting to do with baby skin? This got announced, this dating service, for the first time during an appearance Church made on 60 Minutes. He later claimed that the section about Digidate wasn't supposed to air. Like, oh, I had no idea they were putting that in the show. I was just talking.