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apt-apt-apt-apttoday at 4:02 AM9 repliesview on HN

Humans can likely be cloned too.

Imagine 10,000 Albert Einsteins and John von Neumanns working together with modern AI on medical, scientific, and societal issues.

Though there could be an Evil Einstein due to upbringing or something.


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probably_wrongtoday at 10:32 AM

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

(quote by Stephen Jay Gould)

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thefoundertoday at 4:06 AM

I am not sure if the Einsteins you clone would do what you want. Maybe they will want to be influencers on short video platforms.

didibustoday at 4:12 AM

Don't twin studies mostly show this wouldn't be the case?

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m463today at 5:28 AM

I would watch him carefully if he grew a goatee or something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror,_Mirror_(Star_Trek:_The...

readthenotes1today at 4:46 AM

You are such an optimist. We are more likely to get clones of athletes, and clones of billionaires for the organ donation options.

I doubt people like Jonas Salk would accept being cloned if they could help it

dtj1123today at 7:34 AM

However unlikely it may be, when I see a wealthy celebrity with a doppleganger child the thought crosses my mind that they may have had themselves cloned.

The resemblance between young Donald Trump and his son Barron is uncanny, for example.

downrightmiketoday at 4:34 AM

Nope, that's what relativistic slugs are for

el_iotoday at 4:12 AM

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ThrustVectoringtoday at 5:27 AM

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