[ExI] that's not true!

[Adrian Tymes]

When a distinguished, elderly person says that a certain thing that does
not contravene the laws of physics will eventually be possible, said person
is right, though any associated projections of exactly when (if they are
not within the next 2 years) should be taken with a grain of salt.  One
should also keep in mind the difference between "possible" and "practical".

When such a person says that a certain thing that does not contravene the
laws of physics will never be possible, especially when other people are
working on that very thing or its precursor capabilities, said person is
usually wrong.

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 3:38 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
> TRUE!”
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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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