324: Down with the CRISPR

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.9 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Unintended CRISPR consequences; YouTube, Bill Gates takes on anti-vaxxers; facial recognition regulations; Stamps.com (not an ad); scooter software glitches; HoloLens; Ev out from Twitter; BMW's AI; the horrible lives of moderators; Vice; Clear & Vivid; Abducted in Plain Sight; hand jobs; Grumpy Old Marxists. Show notes at http://gog.show/324 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks is brought to you by Hover.
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0:06.6	Grumpy Old Geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason DeFilippo,
0:14.2	discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.
0:18.2	Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo.
0:25.8	And I'm Brian Schultmeister.
0:27.1	We've got some follow-up this week.
0:28.8	Oh, we got a lot of follow-up.
0:32.0	Almost as much follow-up as we have show, but let's see here.
0:35.6	Yeah, so remember the CRISPR experiment in China where, what's his name?
0:40.8	He's young, Q made some twins without the CCR5 gene or had it turned off.
0:48.7	Yeah, well, what could possibly go wrong with that?
0:51.2	That's kind of what we said in the get-go, but turns out he might be making super babies.
0:57.0	Okay.
0:58.0	You're testing this gene now on rats and our mice.
1:02.6	It turns out it makes them smarter.
1:04.6	You say that we didn't know entirely what that particular gene did before deciding to
1:09.6	shut it off?
1:10.6	They're not.
1:11.6	Okay.
1:12.6	Who does all that coming?
1:15.2	Yep.
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