{"id":121248,"date":"2021-04-05T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T00:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/neuralink-co-founder-says-we-have-the-tech-to-build-an-actual-jurassic-park"},"modified":"2021-04-05T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T00:23:18","slug":"neuralink-co-founder-says-we-have-the-tech-to-build-an-actual-jurassic-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/neuralink-co-founder-says-we-have-the-tech-to-build-an-actual-jurassic-park","title":{"rendered":"Neuralink Co-Founder Says We Have the Tech to Build an Actual Jurassic Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuralink-co-founder-says-we-have-the-tech-to-build-an-actual-jurassic-park2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated, \u201cJurassic Park\u201d and \u201cJurassic World\u201d make up a five-movie franchise \u2014 with a sixth in the works \u2014 all based on Michael Crichton\u2019s hit novel about how bad of an idea it was to open a place like Jurassic Park. Leveraging recent advances in genetic research to create entirely new creatures is certainly an enticing idea, though there\u2019s a big difference between something potentially being feasible and actually being a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not all fun and games when you\u2019re playing god and creating new dinosaurs. Hodak later added that de-extinction could be a valuable tool for increasing biodiversity, perhaps because we find ourselves in the midst of an <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/more-than500-vertebrates-poised-extinct\" class=\"\">era of mass extinction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiodiversity (antifragility) is definitely valuable; conservation is important and makes sense,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/max_hodak\/status\/1378575534536323074\" class=\"\">Hodak tweeted<\/a> minutes later. \u201cBut why do we stop there? Why don\u2019t we more intentionally try to generate novel diversity?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the uninitiated, \u201cJurassic Park\u201d and \u201cJurassic World\u201d make up a five-movie franchise \u2014 with a sixth in the works \u2014 all based on Michael Crichton\u2019s hit novel about how bad of an idea it was to open a place like Jurassic Park. Leveraging recent advances in genetic research to create entirely new creatures is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,412,47,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-genetics","category-neuroscience","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}