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In order to avoid our doom, we must grow distributed food forests inside towns and cities. Here's how to start now: https://youtu.be/AJCv7wIolwM
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Ah, yes, eugenics. Considering that intelligence seems to be correlated with autism spectral disorders, and individuals with severe autism are in need of individual care for their entire lives, are you sure that's it's smart to optimize for raw intelligence?
I think you have nothing to fear. I'm all in favor of breeding genetic disorders out of the species and there's a whole bunch we can eliminate before we get into murky ethical territory. Religion can bite me on this one. But also, take a look around you. The species isn't going to optimize for intelligence. It's going to optimize for looks. That's just how we're wired. And that will destroy a lot of plastic surgeon j…
Gene editing is the less family destroying, individual abusing way to go. As long as it's more focused on disease removal and less about having thousands of [insert favorite movie star/model here] walking around.
Like klyrs said, we want some weird in the gene pool
In order to avoid our doom, we must grow distributed food forests inside towns and cities. Here's how to start now: https://youtu.be/AJCv7wIolwM
Why would we want to grow our food on 2% of our most expensive land? Land that is already used for lots of other things?
In order to avoid our doom, we must grow distributed food forests inside towns and cities. Here's how to start now: https://youtu.be/AJCv7wIolwM
Why would we want to grow our food on 2% of our most expensive land? Land that is already used for lots of other things?
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Why would we want to grow our food on 2% of our most expensive land? Land that is already used for lots of other things?
Think of the real estate value living near the food forest... Like central park in NYC, why don't we cut that in half and put up more high rises on our precious expensive land.
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Ah, yes, eugenics. Considering that intelligence seems to be correlated with autism spectral disorders, and individuals with severe autism are in need of individual care for their entire lives, are you sure that's it's smart to optimize for raw intelligence?
I think you have nothing to fear. I'm all in favor of breeding genetic disorders out of the species and there's a whole bunch we can eliminate before we get into murky ethical territory. Religion can bite me on this one. But also, take a look around you. The species isn't going to optimize for intelligence. It's going to optimize for looks. That's just how we're wired. And that will destroy a lot of plastic surgeon j…
Even when people find someone attractive it doesn’t mean they just get together. This is some high school level perspective way off base from a contemporary relationship.
Just because the words create a believable scenario does not mean you’re anywhere close to a probable one.
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Why would we want to grow our food on 2% of our most expensive land? Land that is already used for lots of other things?
Because you don't need energy, human or otherwise to ship food or material to where the people are. Because we stack functions through time and space. Because it solves the distribution problem. Because it's already working and all we need to do is expand. Because the sun's shines everywhere. Because polyculture allows for more variety and a single crop failure doesn't need to be insured. Because we could close loops…
This is a pretty poor article. First of all, the title has nothing really at all to do with the content. Second, its extremely short, and third, superficial with no real substance and lots of keyword stuffing and presuppositions. "If we develop AGI this is how it will be followed by this and then that"
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I think you have nothing to fear. I'm all in favor of breeding genetic disorders out of the species and there's a whole bunch we can eliminate before we get into murky ethical territory. Religion can bite me on this one. But also, take a look around you. The species isn't going to optimize for intelligence. It's going to optimize for looks. That's just how we're wired. And that will destroy a lot of plastic surgeon j…
"breeding out" is the horrible version of eugenics. Gene editing is the less family destroying, individual abusing way to go. As long as it's more focused on disease removal and less about having thousands of [insert favorite movie star/model here] walking around. Like klyrs said, we want some weird in the gene pool
This is all far-future when we are more experienced and knowledgeable about genes in total, at least after having made loads of mistakes. That's worrying, but inevitable.
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I think you have nothing to fear. I'm all in favor of breeding genetic disorders out of the species and there's a whole bunch we can eliminate before we get into murky ethical territory. Religion can bite me on this one. But also, take a look around you. The species isn't going to optimize for intelligence. It's going to optimize for looks. That's just how we're wired. And that will destroy a lot of plastic surgeon j…
This is absolute nonsense. It’s accepted in science we select for biological traits like scent, and social standing; intelligence being a key component of a persons social standing. Even when people find someone attractive it doesn’t mean they just get together. This is some high school level perspective way off base from a contemporary relationship. Just because the words create a believable scenario does not mean y…