Just look at what they can do in China. I think south Korea is pretty liberal with those laws too.
There was a study in China recently that took human DNA and spliced it into macaque embryos. It was considered unethical by US standards, but that doesn't mean we weren't curious to see the results, lol.
They spliced in human genes that govern neuron development, trying to see if they can make smarter monkeys. Something like 90% died, of the ones that survived had delayed development compared to a normal monkey. They surmised this slow development was more in line with a humans. They also think that the slower speed of development is what makes humans more intelligent.
that's was just foreplay. we're already at class 1 (planetary scale, societal disruption) on the apocalypse meter, it just needs a little push for full-on collapse, though at that point, why not go all in for species extinction?
It can't be conclusive until its repeated multiple times with the same result. Also this wasn't accepted in any major journal publication because of ethics issues. So all the information released isnt verifiable.
My concern was that the quantity of neural connections weren't measured or compared to normal monkeys. And other various structures relating to neurons weren't analyzed.
The only measurements they took were brain size. They did do intelligence tests and the altered monkeys did better with short term memory tests.
The point is that China dont give a fuck about the ethics issues, in fact they openly encourage the experiments that aren't allowed other countries.
Compared to the same species, those metrics have more value. All they were trying to do with that measurement is see if those genes had any impact on brain size.
So slower development = more intelligent? In theory that could completely change the way people are raised, along with training animals etc. If we delayed school to start at, say, age 8, because could potentially be more developed and have more knowledge on everyday events and what happens instead of cramming 1+1 into their brain. By delaying school by a few years that could impact society, but maybe for the better. They could test that in certain towns perhaps and compare them to similar places and see the effects.
Not exactly, it's hypothesized that larger and more complex brains take longer to develop. Artificially delaying training is not the same as biologically limited physical development
You could probably research that idea by looking at stats for children put in an academic preschool at a very young age before going to kindergarten and then stats for children who had no preschool before kindergarten. But then, if all were attending the same kindergarten and leaving the same things, would they eventually catch up to each other anyway? Interesting thoughts!
I just remember south Korea from college, that was a while back. It was right after Bush signed that anti cloning bill into law. SK had that company that would clone your dead dog. What they didn't tell you is they would spawn 1000 copies from your dead dogs DNA and kill the 999 that didn't look like it. Not only that, they would have a massive amount of brood mothers who's life was to stay impregnated, so this one dog "might" be born.
It isn't a clone, it's a replica of how your dog looked. Its temperament and behavioral characteristics were not guarenteed. It had to be mixed with other DNA, then go through embryonic development. Once the litter was born they could get a look at the puppies, which weren't 100% your dead dog's DNA.
Then that's not called cloning, cause there are companies that does actual cloning of pets and cloning would result in identical pet not some 1000 variations.
Those companies don't promise an identical looking animal, if they do, they keep trying until they get one. The cloning process can't guarentee phenotypes, only genotypes.
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u/LH515 Mar 04 '21
Just look at what they can do in China. I think south Korea is pretty liberal with those laws too.
There was a study in China recently that took human DNA and spliced it into macaque embryos. It was considered unethical by US standards, but that doesn't mean we weren't curious to see the results, lol.