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Terr_yesterday at 9:11 PM0 repliesview on HN

The Deus Ex game series is known for relatively high-effort writing you can find while exploring, and I think this fictional e-mail from Deux Ex: Human Revolution has some renewed relevance after 15 years:

> We've been working with VersaLife’s new Chaos Model Genomatrix, which is trying to apply fractal mathematics to the study of genetic mutation. In essence, we've been trying to predict the future of human evolution using past mutations stored in the database of our mitochondria (which is passed uninterrupted from ancestral Eve through our mothers; it gives us an accurate and universal roadmap for our common past).

> The thing is… the sample you sent fits one of our evolutionary models of the future. We’re talking about someone who is ahead of the genetic curve by one step, maybe two. Do you know what this could mean for medicine alone? You have a living, breathing Nobel Prize on your hands!

(From Megan Reed's computer, in the prologue.)