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There nothing disappointing about strictly controlling that type of research and the experiments they're allowed to do. If superhuman's were to be developed it could spark off the same type of arms race that defined the cold war. Every country would want to have better humans ot risk being left behind

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There is very little risk of this. We don't have the capacity to rival the raw computational power of millions of years of evolutionary trial and error. In the short term, any change to the human genome would lead to a net-negative. You'd have an army of inferior humans, not superior ones.

The goals of evolution are not the same as those of some country's army.

Fun trivia: EVE Online's lore is moving in this direction. And by "moving", I mean "going all in".

Loyal EVE vision believer here; what do you mean? Can you back this up with links and examples?

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