Nah, I am too young. 30-40 years later - more likely.
Evan Turner
Bump.
Don't believe Veeky Forums has no interest in the fancy stuff you see in MIT press releases/Cell/Nature.
Lately, the stuff is getting more and more interesting.
Bentley Davis
I thought that Moore's law was not as accurate anymore due to physical limitations
Nolan Flores
Moores law still holds for the maybe next 10 years within the shrinking transistor paradigm. After this 3D transistors or maybe graphene meme will give it another boost. Till then quantum computer will be more widespread though they cant completely replace normal computing devices.
Adam King
Silicon was the major problem in the 7 nm - 5 nm transition, but right now there are tons of replacement materials in development.
Hell, a 1 nm chip was successfully made at Berkeley in 2016.
The only reason (at least one of the primary reasons) there were crtiticisms to Moore's law was due to the fact, that everyone assumed there's no valid silicon replacement.
Right now there is.
Liam Martin
It's still illegal to edit the human genome isn't it? When will the tards in the white house do away with that already?
Evan Brown
Thanks, didn't know any of this
Isaac Howard
Kinda? There are docs out there already in the US that can guarantee you having a kid with blue eyes. No, I am not talking about that laser treatment, I literally watched the doctor who performed the... selection? (I don't know what the right word for this might be) on screen and with the eggs from the mother.
Anyway.
Let's assuming that editing the human genome can yield real, marked results. Not shit like, "Oh now your kids can live longer." That just means longer geriatric medicine, yay for no one. You have to also factor in shit like quality of life for instance. No one wants to have Alzheimer's for forty years as an example.
My point here is that if China (cause it's going to be China) can show provable increases in IQ, physical fitness, etc. then you will see any taboo about this sort of work evaporate in the US overnight.
Why? To remain fiscally viable as a nation-state.
It has nothing to do with making your kids better, rather it has everything to do with being able to compete financially with the other countries that push their kids through this.
It will only get worse (way worse) if China starts up a mandatory program for all future children. The birthrate in China is currently pumping out over 16 million kids a year. Now imagine those 16 million chinks are all genetically engineered.
It's sink or swim at that point, and to be frank, I am pretty sure that it's a fight the US will lose because of completely different cultures. The only way to potentially off-set this is by taking a side-step via AGI, but that's doubtful as fuck because if we haven't figured it out by then - the genetically engineered mongrels have a much better chance by virtue of simply being more intelligent.
