• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    10 months ago

    kinda inevitable. with as fast as dna can be sequenced now… we are publicly broadcasting this information. how can we realistically protect something we broadcast. its kinda like having your photo taken in public. at some point, its gunna happen.

    do you have an expectation of privacy on data you publicly broadcast 24/7 everywhere all the time? i dont think so. i think its silly to try.

    its only a matter a time before most of the world is captured into a continually aggregated genetic database of unique individuals which will inevitably all link back together.

    are there going to be bad actors? yep. lets prosecute those mofos, but this kind of aggregations is far from evil or wrong or… stoppable.

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      10 months ago

      Holy shit, GATTACA was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual!

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        10 months ago

        i call this the ‘tipper gore affect’. aka, ‘you see what you want to see’

        im kinda hopin we dont go down the full-on genetic editing path as they did in the movie… maybe just hardcore embryo defect filtering for know diseases/errors

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          10 months ago

          It’s not even the genetic editing that was the biggest issue, IMO. It was the pervasive surveillance and discrimination that was even worse.