Informal YouTube short where a speaker reacts enthusiastically to gene therapy advances (CRISPR and epigenetics), balancing ethical concerns with excitement about clinical benefits (e.g., curing inherited blindness) and potential human enhancements (longer life, resilience) versus neurotech approaches like brain implants. The tone is conversational and speculative, emphasizing real-world therapeutic promise alongside ethical reflection.
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It's like, wow, that's actually very, very fucking cool. It's crazy with medical advances and, you know, I think years ago, when I heard about when it was. I feel like it was just called crispr, right? Like, where you just, like, change your genes, like, literally change who you are kind of thing. And how scary that was. And they went on to explain, this is happening all day, every day in your environment. You're being affected by your genes are being affected constantly epigenetically and that. And that some of these therapies. Now you think, well, you know, ethically, it's scary, but then you go, what if your son or daughter is blind? Like, and then you could do this gene therapy and make them not blind. It's like, wow, that's actually very, very cool. I mean, if we're getting into that realm, there's a lot of really great ways to, you know, apply it. And, you know, maybe this is the. Maybe this is the more biologically friendly way of upregulating us as human beings into a species that will live longer, be more resilient, as opposed to just put putting a brain tap and wires in and uploading the neuralink.
