<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, 7:58 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_3114316856579133552WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">These DNA tests are really only reliable back about 6 generations or so, but my own African ancestor is only 5 generations back. The 60 dollar DNA tests picked it up in all of us who are on that branch of the family tree. So I have an actual number (verified by multiple DNA tests (two different services for several relatives (rather than a breezy claim (or a dark complexion (which can be faked.)))))</p></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">So genetic racism?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Please spin me a tale about how DNA testing is going to make bigotry obsolete instead of double-down on hating those who are fundamentally "different" (even if those most prejudiced have no idea what the numbers actually mean)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think we're very clever to be reading sourcecode for a person's hardware, but i don't think we're mature enough to be using the information responsibly. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yeah, it's all great fun & games... for now.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Other than gross incompetence being the saviour from dystopian futures, how are we building the ethical framework and legal protection to ensure we're not hog-tied and horse-whipped "by the numbers" that DNA exposes in every living thing on earth?</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_3114316856579133552WordSection1"><div><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u></u></p></div></div></div>
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