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PSA: it's not as simple as: alter a gene, see an effect.

There are complex regulatory networks involving genes which code for "chromatin remodeler" proteins which go around altering the degree to genes are expressed.

Even if we can equip new CRISPR with vi keybindings and start pushing commits, we're testing in production and are still quite foggy about how the feature flags work.



Move fast and break things never sounded more exciting.


just like all other medical research, we will test the heck out of it on lesser organisms that err... don't feel pain or something, probably


Are all people production? Even death row inmates?


Dang it, we have no more death row test subjects left. Let's falsely accuse someone of murder


Depends, do you want Musk to bribe judges to condemn more people to death penalty so he gets more human brain chip test subjects?

To be clear, I'm not saying Musk would do that... but that kind of system would really be encouraging it.


Yes. If you want a staging environment you can use Neurospora Crassa.


That’s not even close to staging. That’s more like a local dev environment on a dev’s pc with quickly generated mock data.


Yes?




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