Do you expect us to “solve” our biology within the coming millennium? Are there any other problems (beyond FTL communication and entropy) that you think might be beyond the reach of human or ASI science?
Based on the reactions to articles posted here about gene editing, it sounds like a lot of people are skeptical about our ability to control polygenic traits like intelligence, height, and strength within the coming decades, but I'm wondering if organic biology – either due to its complexity or due to the many factors that are either random or even quantum/non-deterministic – might never be fully controllable, even by a superintelligence. I don't expect humans to still die at 80-100 years in 3024 as we do in 2024, but I don't think it can be ruled out that many aspects of medicine and biology are beyond the reach of conventional science in the same way that faster-than-light travel or entropy reversal are beyond the reach of conventional science.
Submitted March 01, 2024 at 03:02AM by TF-Fanfic-Resident
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