Comments by "PM" (@pm71241) on "What Does Future Technology Look Like? (Pt. 2) | Zoltan Istvan | TECH | Rubin Report" video.

  1. Growing babies artificially is a terrible idea. No... the rules have not changed. There are several studies showing that the baby's contact to the mother before and after birth is very important.
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  2. ***** I have a hard time trusting that the judgment of when the technology is appropriate will be qualified. For years it's been practice to take the newborn away an place it in a separate bed after birth ... research has shown that was a terrible idea. But it's still practice in many places. The same goes for the importance of breast feeding.
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  3. ***** "...we've realized that science is the best source of knowing what is best" Yes... when there actually has been done science on the problem at hand. Alone the fact that the US doesn't have paid maternity leave for mothers  showns that even where there is science on something it's often ignored. Denmark has 6 months maternity leave - one of the reasons being that it's recommended that newborns are breast fed for at least 6 months.
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  4. ***** "oh i see, the problem is political." No ... the problem is a matter of understanding and being able to reproduce all the important factors. I brought of the example of the political failure to show that we very often fail to get the priorities straight. To make my point more clear ... I'll bet that the first generation of these artificial uteruses in general use will be found out 20 years later to have overlooked an important factor - akin to the skin-to-skin contact or breast-milk qualities which have been overlooked for decades.
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  5. ***** I'm not sure I buy the analogy between "new technology" as "phones a screens" and replacing human reproduction. I'm not arguing against using new technology, I'm arguing that there's a huge difference between being able to keep a embryo alive and growing in an artificial uterus for 9 months and the actual mother/child interactions which we don't fully understand - and probably not will understand for a long time after the first artificial uterus is on the market.
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  6. ***** I think you are mis-stating my argument when you use the term "too risky". It's not "too risky" to not breastfeed. It's not "too risky" to not have skin-to-skin contact and mother/child nursing the first days after birth. ... but research has shown that it is a very good idea to do it for various reasons. For one - The mother/child contact stimulates the child's ability to be breast fed. So ... there's simply a lot of important things to gain from the true biological process. It's not "too risky" to not do it - sometimes it's even necessary to not do it (like in emergencies) but for society to in general do away with that is most likely a terrible idea. ... and I predict it will take more than a few generations of this "technology" to overcome such subtle drawbacks compared to the biological process.
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  7. ***** ... yeah... that's more in line with what I try to say.
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