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gozur88 on Dec 15, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Defect that causes Huntington's disease has been c...

Well, sure, that's possible. But then it would be the forcing that's wrong.

jhiska on Dec 16, 2017 [–]

In my view, having the tech is what's wrong, because then it will be inevitably misused by the ruling classes to potentially catastrophic effect.

You effectively can't trust the regulators of something so potentially disruptive of the balance of power.

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