Chinese scientist who produced genetically altered babies sentenced to 3 years in jail

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[–]lordNikon 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I feel like this is 100% Beijing approved and they are only punishing them to appease international eyes on the subject. Tidy payoff to the scientists after.

Maybe they'll make an Icheb from Voyager, genetically weaponised child who doesn't know it.

[–]hennaojichan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This could be a way of announcing all this to the world. Then if you have a few billion bitcoins you can have your baby put on the waiting list. What alterations would you try first? Size of cortex, height, weight, musculature, heightened ability to communicate since most of don't know what the other, unmodified human, is talking about. Also a good feature would be rapid maturation so by the time he is twelve, you can put him to work and retire.

If they can do this, what other reason would they have to make this announcement? Smells very fishy to me.

And if they can do this, there is no putting this genie (jinn) back in the bottle.