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We Need World One Goverment
Argument: Currently, there are a host of problems, challenges, and opportunities that cannot be adequately addressed within national borders (COVID, pollution, global warming, piracy, tax havens, AI, etc). And this creates arms races and problem of the commons issues.... - Editec...
I believe a one-world global government is a terrible idea for the same reason that too much power put into too few hands is always a problem. And yes, I do understand that the globe might find itself facing problems that mankind must cooperate to solve.... - Stephanie...
Do you think it would be helpful and do you believe it’s possible for there to be a global citizen consensus that we should not make AGI (or at least pause until we understand better)? If yes to both, what can we all be doing? Do we need a centralized movement?... Who gets to edit the human genome?: Global South sovereignty
The price tag Vertex priced Casgevy at $2.2 million per patient. The disease: sickle cell. The patients: Nigeria, DRC, India, Tanzania. The Nobel: Stockholm. The patent: Boston. The patients are in Kano. We have seen this.... Who gets to edit the human genome?: The Story
The video November 2018. He Jiankui uploaded a YouTube video announcing he had edited the genomes of two human embryos using CRISPR-Cas9. Twin girls, Lulu and Nana. HIV resistance, he claimed.... Balaji Srinivasan argues that we’re going to be developing a "Network State" which might obviate, or evolve, thinking about what even is a global governance: https://thenetworkstate.com/ I think UpTrust done right will move us toward a healthy network state... I like the topic. Argument against: our current forms of governance are not designed for 7 billion people, and centralizing control will make things way worse....