7mo ago

The landscape of human reproduction is on the brink of transformation, with sex potentially becoming unnecessary for conception within the next decade.

www.theguardian.com

Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability, UK fertility watchdog finds

19 comments

Oh good, everyone just hates sex. Glad we're finally doing something about it.
- Sounds like one use-case of for same-sex couples to have biological children together. Which is pretty neat IMHO!
  Not to say that the more macabre use cases don't exist, of course.
  
  oh yeah that's super exciting, I was just making a silly joke
Great. Now the billionaire class can just make their lil workers en masse without any need for the plebs. What a fucking timeline.
- We still need humans for nine months to carry them to term, but I won't be surprised if there are people looking into a technological "solution" to that.
  
  You ever see the movie 'Bone Tomahawk'? Anyone who's seen it will know exactly where your comment made my mind go. Go watch it at least for this context.
  
  Either a technological solution or paying people to carry the baby and then the company takes custody after that. Either way very dystopian.
It’s a Brave New World.
- It is exactly this. Leave it to Musk, Bezos, and Zuck to read these dystopian novels and think, "Wow, what a beautiful future. Let's build that!"
  They won't need AI to replace everybody, just test tube babies cultivated for one specific task: compliance.
  Edit: Autocomplete was incorrect.
- My guess is science has solved that one already. There just is no political will to do that.
- Don't worry, I'm sure we will get the technology for AI raised billionaire clones at scale soon enough
It already is and has been for a long time? Usually very expensive and not nearly as much fun though.
...could pave the way for same-sex couples to have biological children together.
As usual, it sounds like the technology could be used for genuinely good things.
It could be used for horrible things too, yes, but that's often how it goes.
So how far are we from using the Three Seashells and will we be able to afford the Cursing fines to wipe our asses?
Oh, conservatives are just gonna boil at this, I can't wait.
Science nerds "If I can't get laid NO ONE CAN GET LAID!"
Yayyy I can finally take over the world using my very own clone army uwu
As God intended.
The final step for the patriarchy to get rid of women's primordial powers. But they will fail

19 comments