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That isn’t as hypothetical a situation though as what you outline which is preventing a mutation now that may be important tens, hundreds of thousands of years or maybe even millions from now. There’s so much time for technology to evolve to make it likely that any negative effects can be countered through that as technology can deal with problems on a much shorter time scale than evolution can.

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