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Who gets to edit the human genome?: Effective accelerationists
The scream Three hundred thousand children born with sickle cell every year. Most in sub-Saharan Africa. First pain crisis before second birthday. Bones on fire, organs swelling. Pediatric nurses identify it across a ward by the pitch of the scream.... Why haven't we eradicated more diseases?: The Story
One disease in forty-six years Smallpox killed roughly 300 million people in the twentieth century. In 1980, the WHO declared it eradicated. It remains the only human disease ever fully eliminated. Forty-six years later, the list hasn’t grown. Polio was supposed to be next....