sun
2yr ago
I read somewhere that fiscally right conservatives become leftists when it comes to all matters reproductive.
Death is a necessary part of one particular configuration of an ecosystem, and appealing to nature is pointless. Everything is natural.
edit: not even that. Like darkness is an absence of life, death is an absence of longevity. It is not "a part" of life, it is that longevity is not a (necessary) part of life based on sexual reproduction. "You have outlived your usefulness", says the gene once it is duplicated and recombinated into a fresh host. I'm sorry, but who asked?
sun
2yr ago
How about I receive "not getting stabbed in my sleep for daring to do something to my own body", and you receive "not getting herded into a luddite concentration camp before you lot start stabbing people"?
sun
2yr ago
The same plans people had on the frontier, but with a higher range of activities and environments available?
sun
2yr ago
Is "exercising one's advantage in natural selection over arjin_ferman" not a deliberate action whether they do it traditionally or not? What, they slip and their dick falls into a woman producing genetically fit children on accident?
sun
2yr ago
If that's considered an existential threat to humanity, then homo sapiens was an existential threat to homo erectus and your son is a tiny existential threat to yourself.
sun
2yr ago
Aging is merely the ability of the body to repair itself breaking down. Who says we mustn't repair that one, too? (Rhetorical question, Christians!)
sun
2yr ago
As a mild transhumanist, I don't like the perspective of a subroutine that's somewhat similar to the processes in our brains either. It's approximately as valuable to me after I perish as 1+ organisms that have genes somewhat similar to some of the genes I had: i. e. not at all.
I resolve to not upload myself until either I'm terminally ill or old anyway, or the uploading technology demonstrates that it can support continuity and wholeness of thought (such as, for example, Ship-of-Theseusing a willing test subject halfway).
sun
2yr ago
If Yud can get laid with multiple women in rat circles, then I'm willing to believe that no, they really don't require a 6'+ gigachad at minimum or anything like that.
sun
2yr ago
Will they jail the reckless CEO the same way as a reckless pothead driver when their car kills someone (or 10/100/1000 someones)?
sun
2yr ago
If GPT hallucinates a wrong and deadly treatment, who do you sue for malpractice?
sun
2yr ago
If the word "fair" appies to conquering in your books then you might as well own stealing as well. After all, conquering is merely stealing while having enough manpower to do so openly.
sun
2yr ago
No, you cannot, because deterrence does not work when everyone thinks "well I can just not be violent on drugs".
sun
2yr ago
Upgrade perhaps, but still looks like to be an upgrade primarily in the areas where he can just do his own thing, once allocated resources, and drop a breakthrough paper. Allocating resources sounds like a bigger problem to be when moving towards superhumanity.
sun
2yr ago
Why is it always Von Neumann? Last I recall he was a physicist, not a brilliant leader, warlord or businessman who solves coordination problems.
sun
2yr ago
I do not believe showing children Michelangelo is something to be "defended" as if it's a bad thing. Why do you feel the need to censor what has long been accepted as high art, as if children would be struck blind by a marble penis? Take some folk wisdom from Sarge Colon - if it has a vase, it's decent to look at.
sun
2yr ago
though maybe we'd quibble about doctor-skepticism-induced inaction being as costly as equivalent action.
The natural contrarians of today are lucky to have "boiling water" ingrained enough in them to not be questioned.
sun
2yr ago
I find immortal or at least vastly-more-longliving transhumanism within our lifetime to be more likely than FOOM AGI society collapse.
sun
2yr ago
How much more of a stake in a future can anyone have than literally being an immortal transhumanist?
sun
2yr ago
Misgendering an alleged trans person is not the same as calling a black person "nigger". It's more like saying "if you do X, you ain't black". Calling an alleged trans person "tranny" or "troon" would be an appropriate analogy.
I find that progressives do deny that people they dislike belong yo the protected group, but they will almost never use protected group slurs.
sun
2yr ago
What is this fixation on "video games"? I've also seen 1 second no fail reloading in video games, doesn't mean it's relevant. I believe others have provided enough arguments in favor of slightly less optimal action (switching guns) being better than an optimal action that requires practice to be optimal (reloading). Plus weapon breakdown risk.
Doesn't the whole "Heaven" thing require that you die, as opposed to sticking around and possibly, God forbid, start getting ideas of building your own heaven on earth?
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