While part of me immediately fears biological variation of the Iron Wind, I absolutely enjoyed the article. This is really what I come to HN for.
What did trouble me somewhat is the ending where the author effectively says, and I am paraphrasing, that bothering with ethics of it in a world, where we, as a species, demonstrably do not follow ethics is kinda silly ( he lists human designed pathogens as a way to substantiate it). I had trouble accepting that argument that despite knowing that factually he is correct.
edit: replaced true at the end with "factually he is correct"
So as I understand it, biologists and computer scientists take clumps of frog embryo cells and engineer their shapes to allow them to perform specific tasks?
This is groundbreaking - and the very fact that it is possible, is mind-bending... I really liked the possibility that these 'machines' can be 'evolved' into agglomerating ocean microplastics into collectable balls!
What did trouble me somewhat is the ending where the author effectively says, and I am paraphrasing, that bothering with ethics of it in a world, where we, as a species, demonstrably do not follow ethics is kinda silly ( he lists human designed pathogens as a way to substantiate it). I had trouble accepting that argument that despite knowing that factually he is correct.
edit: replaced true at the end with "factually he is correct"