[ExI] that's not true!

[Dylan Distasio]

Thanks for sharing this!

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 6:37 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Those of you who were at the Extro4 BioTech Futures conference at Berkeley
> in 1999 perhaps remember a talk about DNA editing at the cell level.
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> At a particularly dramatic moment as the keynote speaker was giving a
> lecture on the topic, our own Robert Bradbury stood and shouted “THAT’S NOT
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> Those two argued as the audience listened, with Robert arguing that
> in-vitro gene editing will someday be possible, while the keynote speaker
> was adamant that it would never be done.
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> Robert was staying at my house for that event, so we had time to discuss
> it.  I didn’t understand, being a space guy, not a bio guy.  Robert was
> arguing that this would someday be possible:
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> https://www.healthline.com/health-news/crispr-gene-editing-used-for-the-first-time-inside-a-persons-body
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> Robert has been gone over 9 yrs now.  I miss him like he left us yesterday.
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> http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2011/03/remembering-robert-bradbury.html
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> This is a paper that was the preliminary to a follow-on Matrioshka Brain
> paper he and I were working on between 2000 and about 2006.  I was doing
> the orbit mechanics and thermo stuff, he was doing the computing stuff.
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> http://www.gwern.net/docs/1999-bradbury-matrioshkabrains.pdf
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> spike
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