Episode 2803 CWSA 04/08/25
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Now, many of you saw the TV series Game of Thrones, and you remember that there were these big, freaky white wolves, and they were called dire wolves. Now, I didn't know that dire wolves were a real extinct species, but apparently it's a real thing. And a company, genetic startup company called Colossal, has managed to clone some direwolves. So now you can get your own direwolf. Well, not yet. I mean, they're not selling them. But I would think they'd want to. So they've been extinct for some 12,000 years. But now you can get one. I think a woolly mammoth is going to come soon. But I would like a woolly mammoth wolf. Is there any reason we can't start combining things? I mean, it's impressive that they recreated something exactly that existed.
I guess they took a regular wolf and then they gene edited just the parts that were different to make a dire wolf. Now, I heard from my neighbor once that if you have a dog of any kind, burglars will stay away from your house because they don't like to mess with a dog. But I've got a tiny little old dog, and I would like to maybe have something a little scarier. Do you think you can domesticate any of these dire wolves? Because if a dire wolf comes to the door, nobody's going to rob your house if you have a wolf. So I want a well-trained, well-behaved, but deadly wolf. In related news, there's a dog cloning business. This already exists if you want to clone your own dog. New York Post is reporting that you could take the DNA from your deceased pet and you can have it cloned. Apparently, it's such a booming business, they can barely keep up with it. But like I said, I think I like the cloned Snickers. but I liked her also to be a little more dire wolf than she is.
So I'd be like, all right, you like treats and you like bugging me all day, but could you also be a wolf to protect my house? And I think someday, someday I'm going to get my own wolf. Well, meanwhile, on the X platform, Elon Musk is, allegedly, according to the BBC, clamping down on parody accounts. I thought that was already done.
What are the latest developments in genetic cloning?
Wasn't it already a rule that you had to say you're a parody or you're fake? But apparently the rule is that you must say you're a parody or a fake. I'm not sure how new that is. It feels like that's been the case for a while. But that's a good idea because I get impersonated now and then on X. So I wouldn't mind having a little more clarity on that. Thanks, Vic. How many of you saw, I guess Joe Rogan had an interesting guest, Ben Lamb. Ben Lamb. And he talked about, speaking of genetic stuff, he talked about gene editing of human beings in China. So allegedly China might be ahead of us. You could argue if that's really ahead of us in the ability to gene edit humans. So there's one story, I don't know how confirmed this is, that they did some testing on humans. making some babies that were gene-edited to be resistant to HIV. Does that sound real? I don't know. I give that a maybe, maybe. But then there's rumor that maybe China has also experimented with making kids who are more intelligent. You know what I think?
I think if you tried to make intelligent humans more intelligent, you would have just the worst problems. Because there's a movie I used to love. It was one of the best movies ever called Little Man Tate. And it was about a little kid who was a genius. And the thing I loved about it is it accurately showed that if you're too smart, you can see all the things that can go wrong.
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