Thread: [POLL]Designer babies suddenly become a thing TOMORROW. Are you getting one?

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EDIT: I'm not being figurative btw, so don't take this to mean I'm talking about some baby-looking Asians trololololol

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Designer babies? Like, what? Does it come with a gucci logo on it's ass or something?

I think I'll hold out for a designer wife. Then maybe consider a designer baby to go with her.

Originally Posted by badbl00d

Designer babies? Like, what? Does it come with a gucci logo on it's ass or something?

Genetically engineered, either before gestation or during gestation or, at the very most, right after birth.

Nah. Id probably eliminate any kind of disease or susceptibility to disease from the egg & sperm & let the chips fall where they may.

Originally Posted by PrehistoricUFO

Aaaaaaaand then watch how 100% of them are white/light, even when born to ethnic parents lmfao.

Gotta love that hypocrisy.

It's things like this that make me wonder - should there be five habitable planets in the Solar System - one for each race.

According to several thought experiments, our solar system can easily fit dozens to hundreds of habitable Earths in the Goldilocks Zone, with stable orbits lasting hundreds of millions of years.

One planet for each skin tone/race would be acceptable...

Originally Posted by HannoCometh

It's things like this that make me wonder - should there be five habitable planets in the Solar System - one for each race.

According to several thought experiments, our solar system can easily fit dozens to hundreds of habitable Earths in the Goldilocks Zone, with stable orbits lasting hundreds of millions of years.

One planet for each skin tone/race would be acceptable...

You going to try to re-orbit other planets into the zone somehow?

Yes

That is the only way having kids makes sense to me.

If I’m guaranteed to have only 10/10 handsome tall athletic Chad sons with perfect physical and mental health who all become NFL quarterbacks and who make hundreds of millions in their careers.

This has been on the cards ever since CRISPR-CAS9 first came on the scene nearly 10 years ago.

They've tried to prevent it from happening, and prosecuted a chinese scientist doing underground work on babies with CRISPR, but it's inevitable. Whenever new technologies come out, if bad chit can be done, someone will do it.

Currently they mostly prefer to edit epigenetics, germline editing as illegal as it stands (but obviously that won't stop people)

Originally Posted by badbl00d

Designer babies? Like, what? Does it come with a gucci logo on it's ass or something?

With CRISPR CAS9 you can go and edit genomes of cells pretty damn easily, it's a lot like cutting and pasting. There was a woman who appears to have been cured of sickle cell anemia, by editing her genes to give her normal hemoglobin. She's been free from sickle cell for over a year despite it being a genetic condition.

The problem is, we don't properly understand gene expression so IMO it should only be used for life threatening/dramatically quality of life lowering genetic conditions, because there's a decent amount of risk involved. When you start trying to change cosmetic parts of the genome, it's very difficult to tell what kind of damage you may do because since of the complexity involved, and the fact DNA seems context dependant to a certain degree (eg. you can't always just map some genes to something, the context, the rest of the genome, and the paternal/maternal markers on the genes all play a part in how the genes are expressed)

The primary danger of CRISPR CAS9 is that it's actually fairly easy to do for biologists, and doesn't need much equipment. It can easily be done in cheap underground labs.

Originally Posted by Silencespeaks

Yes

That is the only way having kids makes sense to me.

If I’m guaranteed to have only 10/10 handsome tall athletic Chad sons with perfect physical and mental health who all become NFL quarterbacks and who make hundreds of millions in their careers.

But the reason this is desirable is because it's a somewhat rare resource. Once everyone's children are like this, then what? A 10/10 handsome tall athletic chad becomes an average 5/10.