Do you remember at school, you were taught that sharing is caring?
We see Peer to Peer technologies as essential to the preservation of the ability to distribute data among one another. In some ways, the internet itself is peer to peer, although service providers and backbone infrastructure projects have intermediated it significantly. Genetic data are the code of life itself. In ways even more profound than pretty much any other kind of data that can be shared, genetic data needs to not be subjected to intermediation by any entities with any agenda to serve. If your DNA modifications were at the whims of governments seeking to create supersoldiers, corporations seeking profit or bioterrorists seeking extortion, you would not be safely able to enjoy the benefits of the Evolution Revolution.
This means that of all the kinds of data that want to be free, genetic data wants to be the free-est.
By making genetic data directly available to one another, we can ensure peer to peer sharing of the code of life in a way that is reminiscent of (but thanks to certain biocybersecurity measures, more secure than) the BitTorrent network. Because the only person that owns your specific combination of DNA is you, and the only person that should decide what goes into the instructions that your body is using to change itself, is you (though in some cases if you know someone you can thoroughly trust not to mess your DNA up, you might want to make an exception for if you are incapacitated and a set of genetic edits would save your life - that exception should be your decision to make in advance).
The means to edit DNA are best made available equally to everyone without bias. We are all living beings with a stake in our own survival, and we all should have and strive to ensure equal access to healthcare, adaptability, survival measures and self-actualisation including through body modification and customisation. To disintermediate is to make direct connections possible and practical. Laberation, the network of GUESS users, is designed to disintermediate sharing of good ideas in gene editing, designs for new vectors and edits that do anything from cure diseases to add a tail. It will be built to use distributed hash table based technologies to ensure availability is not easy to cut off - even by us. Feedback and scoring will help ensure that good gene edits are recognizable as such, and bad gene edits are tagged with appropriate warnings, but are still available to view for educational, scientific and comparative purposes.
