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  • *A flower with seeds, unless you want a bunch of sterile future humans too.

    Growing an embryo is easy. Growing an embryo into a fetus is hard. Growing a fetus into a baby is still very very unknown. There’s a LOT of signal pathways to figure out with many hormone mixtures as well. It wasn’t until recently that only one aspect of sex development was even somewhat figured out:

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181215141333.htm

    And that’s not even getting into more complicated things. It’s still not understood why some people are born heterosexual, others homosexual, bisexual, etc. But it is thought to have something to do with development in the womb (look up how the odds of being a gay man go up the more kids a woman has). If something like orientation is affected by womb development, what else is? Intelligence? Empathy? Facial Features?

    And if you get it wrong, the result can be unethical. You could end up with many humans who have no empathy, or as I mentioned, sterile, or whoops everyone is hetero now, or all of them have severe learning disabilities.

    And if you get it right, guess what the rich will do? Gattica btw.

    A lot of progress has been done, yes, but there’s still way, way more. People forget the human genome wasn’t even mapped out until the early 2000s, and less than 50 years ago people could still smoke in a lot of hospitals.


  • Just want to point out, even with billions, an artificial womb would still not be seen for decades.

    Even something like growing a kidney has been incredibly difficult. A whole human would require essentially first fully understanding the whole process of pregnancy and how a fetus affects the body, and then maybe artificial organoids as well. It would probably be easier to figure out how to grow a brain first.

    Basically this is like the old saying of how you can’t make 9 women make 1 baby in 1 month.



  • Lumisal@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldSmart TV OS Alternative
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    10 months ago

    Currently I’m working on a Plasma Bigscreen build that still gives some privacy and 1080p Netflix/Disney+/Crunchyroll etc by using extensions/WebApps and getting S-Tube and other android apps (including tv web browser) via Waydroid + Flauncher, all controllable through a simple IR controller.

    If you pm me I’ll set it as a reminder for when I finish to share the package. It’s designed for an Odroid C4.

    As for dumb tvs or more privacy friendly tvs, you can find them if you know where to look. Here’s some options from LG:

    https://www.lg.com/us/business/digital-signage

    They had a dumb 65" 4k OLED too but it’s currently out of stock.