People are already doing it right now with anything the FDA isn't regulating. Huge market in adjusting your micro nutrients and amino acids, for example. Some few people hitting themselves with modifications using crispr.
And before the regulations over the pharma industry between 1900-1930, a lot of people were doing some really ethically questionable basement level home science, while snake oil salesman were out selling poisonously doctored cherry juice in the streets. Basically, the scam homeopathy of the 1800s.
One of the fascinating but potentially horrifying elements of singularity is that inevitably, regulation will fall behind advancement, and self-experiment will be one of the few ethical high turnaround human testing models, as it eliminates the coercion ethical concerns. This is one of the reasons that the organs on chips and such are being developed at the moment--cuts out the live animal testing models.
I am a huge fan of the AI premodeling advances right now.
Deightine t1_ja5wys0 wrote
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People are already doing it right now with anything the FDA isn't regulating. Huge market in adjusting your micro nutrients and amino acids, for example. Some few people hitting themselves with modifications using crispr.
And before the regulations over the pharma industry between 1900-1930, a lot of people were doing some really ethically questionable basement level home science, while snake oil salesman were out selling poisonously doctored cherry juice in the streets. Basically, the scam homeopathy of the 1800s.
One of the fascinating but potentially horrifying elements of singularity is that inevitably, regulation will fall behind advancement, and self-experiment will be one of the few ethical high turnaround human testing models, as it eliminates the coercion ethical concerns. This is one of the reasons that the organs on chips and such are being developed at the moment--cuts out the live animal testing models.
I am a huge fan of the AI premodeling advances right now.