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noosphr 4 days ago

The biotech coming down the line will make our current culture wars seem like a disagreement between two best friends.

All of the following are nearly possible today:

+ A man implanted with a womb giving birth.

+ A woman stealing genetic material and creating a baby, the gender of the second parent is irrelevant here.

+ A woman wanting an abortion, instead having the fetus removed and placed in an artificial womb under the care of the father.

And one that I was working on:

+ Farm animals grown with their brains shut off, used as compute substrate for biological neural networks, while their biological functions are controlled remotely.

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lukemercado 4 days ago | parent [-]

> Farm animals grown with their brains shut off, used as compute substrate for biological neural networks, while their biological functions are controlled remotely.

I’m sorry, you were working on what? Where does one learn more about this concept?

	▲	noosphr 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		>Where does one learn more about this concept? One does not. One builds the tools to run the experiments to discover the rules. The closest are FinalSpark and CorticalLabs, but they both are only using in vitro neurons as the computational substrate. Neuralink et al. are working in vivo, but they are only doing output and don't have any plans to do input, let alone to actively disrupt normal neural activity and take control of bodily processes. If you're very interested feel free to drop me a line.