[Sverigevader]

Hmm, didn't we do this for cloning? I remember hearing about this on Lex Fridman when he interviewed Max Tegmark.

If I recall correctly, the entire world is in agreement that cloning is illegal, and even that some people in China (could be just one) even went to prison for it.

[LPisGood]

If you could use cloning to make lots of money more labs would be doing it.

[AlexCoventry]

You probably could make lots of money from human cloning, if it weren't illegal?

[piltdownman]

I mean isn't the end-game here growable organs and an unlimited supply of morally justifiable stem-cells for use in a variety of therapies? Given what Interferons etc... already cost, I'm struggling to see how there isn't a direct and established line of profitability for the domain.

[Mistletoe]

Cloning doesn't scale like code. Code information wants to be free and can be reproduced easily with mouse clicks, but cloning is a lot of hard work. All the instructions for cloning could be leaked on the internet and you still have to build a lab, hire people that know what they are doing, etc. And who can profit from making a bunch of damn kids in this era?

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