Ø Applications · Chapter Six · the plain edition

Genetic Engineering

The line is not the technology. The line is what the edit does to the corridor the future person will stand in.

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This is the plain edition, written for the screen. The book of record is Ø Applications, Chapter 6, unchanged, on the420code.org.

The sections

1. Section 1An embryo in a laboratoryThe edit is done. The question is whether it was theirs to make.
2. Section 2You are already insideYou were edited too, before you could object.
3. Section 3What this chapter stands onThe same corridor. Here it belongs to a person who has not yet begun.
4. Section 4The shadowEugenics fails the test at every level. But it does not exhaust the question.
5. Section 5What the question is really askingWhen one person acts on the corridor of a person who does not yet exist, what reads the act?
6. Section 6Widening and narrowingClean at the extremes. Lethal disease is widening. Cosmetic selection is narrowing.
7. Section 7The middleThe difficulty lives in the middle. The chapter does not pretend otherwise.
8. Section 8Three casesHearing. Intelligence. Athletics. The test runs at each.
9. Section 9Four positionsFour positions. Each gets something right. The test is a fifth.
10. Section 10The future person’s authorityThe future person cannot be consulted. The room they will arrive in is real now.
11. Section 11Where the reach endsFive questions this chapter names and hands on.
12. Section 12Where it would dieFive claims carry this chapter. Each one can fail.
13. Section 13ClosingThe line is not the technology.

The kill switches

APP-6.1Show that widening and narrowing are not stable across ambiguous cases.

APP-6.2Exhibit an edit clearly corridor-widening and clearly parasitic.

APP-6.3Demonstrate that future override-capacity cannot be estimated.

APP-6.4Produce a case where the axiom permits enhancement beyond disease correction.

APP-6.5Show parental authority incompatible with the chapter’s framing.

Source. Ø Applications, Chapter 6 — Genetic Engineering. The book in full: the420code.org/Applications.pdf. The short edition: the420code.org/models/applications/06-genetic-engineering/. The film, The room before the occupant: the420code.org/films/applications/. Its kill switches: APP-6.1 to APP-6.5.