[imtringued]

The question is how do you test it?

Do you really think we can transfer the usual edit, compile, run, rinse and repeat workflow to genetic engineering?

From the perspective of the majority it's an acceptable tradeoff to sacrifice a few thousand humans for the benefit of billions. It could even cause less suffering than natural selection.

I still wouldn't want to be one of those pre release versions...

[crusso]

Probably a lot of animals will be used at first.

Then, human tissue samples can be grown and kept to test results on actual human DNA.

As time goes by, computers will model more and more of the problem space.

I still wouldn't want to be one of those pre release versions

The particular applications will vary, but we're already doing human trials using gene therapy. This is our "Hello World" phase happening now.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/14/health/hemophilia-trial-uk-cu...