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by AstralStorm 3257 days ago
Unless you modify everyone ever, this is extremely unlikely to happen.

There are people resistant to malaria that do not carry the deleterious red blood cell mutation, but a different variant.

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Why is that unlikely? As cost approaches zero and benefits increase we can assume we get pretty close to 100%. In fact holding a portion of the population back, even if well meaning, will be discriminatory.

I give us decent odds we end up like the bananas.