Public lists or 'blueprints' of candidate alleles (shared by prominent scientists) can act as operational playbooks that lower the barrier for embryo selection, private editing, or third‑party analytics to produce enhancements. Making such lists public shifts the problem from speculative ethics to near‑term governance: who can access, implement, or monetize these targets and what safety/consent rules apply.
— If blueprints circulate, policymakers must rapidly address regulation, equitable access, and biosecurity to prevent privatized enhancement arms races and entrenched genetic inequality.
2026.01.05
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Palladium lists concrete interventions (gene‑edited babies, engineered tissues, symbiotic bacteria) — precisely the kind of public 'blueprints' whose circulation and normalization the matched idea warns will lower barriers to enhancement and force regulatory responses.
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Davide Piffer’s reaction to George Church’s X post presenting a candidate allele list as a 'blueprint' for superhuman design.
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