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ChristianKl comments on "All natural food" as an constrained optimisation problem - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 31 July 2014 11:12:04AM 0 points [-]

In this case, an in-depth discussion would require analyzing the potential health hazards given what we know about the genetic modifications involved and the regulations in place

I practice we often don't know much about the genetic modifications involved. If you buy some foot item in the US as a customer that contains some genetic manipulations there no way for you to know exactly what they modified.

Even if you would know which genes they exchanged, we are at a point where we don't even know what all the genes in the human body do.