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by api_or_ipa 4452 days ago
"bio-hacking": is this what we call genetic engineering now?
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Hacking != Engineering
Unless you go by recent popular usage, in which case every possible interaction with anything that is not specifically laid out in that thing's accompanying instruction manual is now considered "hacking." Case in point: Life has no instructions, so people happily call almost anything "life hacking."