I wonder if, should the tech to create gamete-less, womb-less embrios becomes available, governments would step in to guarantee population control by birthing and raising these children themselves.
Very Brave-New-Worldly, I know, but if incentives are high enough...
The ethical debats would be galore, from diversity of representation in education and ethnical composition, to necessary genetical diversity, to the ammount of modifications that should be warrented.
I also wonder if should this day come, if birth rates will be treated as a Central Bank's "inte...
Can someone elaborate on how the risk of military attacks to nuclear powerplants is usually accounted for?
During the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, I remember a great fuss around the shelling of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plan. It was argued a disaster on the magnitude of chernobyl would be impossible, but I'm unaware of the technical aspects involved and some people were still very afraid.
If nuclear (be it large or SMR) is to become commonplace, what kind of risks are involved in these attacks?
Not really, I think significant increases in life expectancy are unlikely because of inherent tradeoffs.
Keeping the organism coherent requires supression, otherwise the signal eventually diverges into noise, which is why only a tiny, compressed set of instructions is what's passed forward.
We're already developing immunte therapies that will help with this, the end of sarcopenia will also afford us more independece much later, but all of our systems eventually fail because of unavoidable thermodynamics