Coevett wrote:
Natural Talent wrote:
I can’t believe you guys!
After all scientists still can’t prove and identify the genes responsible for the dominance of the East Africans. We still have no idea, these guys are crazy!
I believe they have been identified as the EPO and HGH genes respectively.
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Coevett wrote:
Transhumanism means simply 'going beyond human limitations'. It was coined long before all this transsexual and transrace nonsense became part of political orthodoxy.
If gene editing enabled hereditary diseases to be a thing of the past, that would be transhumanism. It wouldn't involve adding bits of snake or bits of elephant into the body.
If gene editing enabled us to raise the average IQ by a couple of points, that would be transhumanism.
We share something like 99% of our genes with chimpanzees. I think we share something like over half our genes with rats. Parts of our brains that control much of our behaviour (the limbic system) are the relic of when our genetic ancestors were closely related to the dinosaurs.
Transhumanism would enable us to become more human and less animal. It's also inevitable. Good luck on the USA competing with China when the average Chinese IQ is 170.
Of course nobody is suggesting that it should be compulsory. If people want to remain as monkeys, it's up to them.
Hi, can we be friends? Or at least can I sleep with you?
I want to be Dr. Manhattan. I certainly self-identify with that dude.
China is trying this as well, https://www.inc.com/samuel-wagreich/the-company-thats-figuring-out-which-genes-make-you-smart.html
UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:
Coevett wrote:
Bill Gates, btw, is a total ____wit. Instead of pouring his billions into the basket case of Africa, hoping they are going to magically become like the Swiss or the Chinese, why not promote technologies like gene editing so that everybody in the world can have an IQ of Einstein or the entrepreneurial drive of Elon Musk? We could probably cure poverty completely, create a world of economic abundance and start colonizing other solar systems within our lifetimes (oh, btw, with gene editing everybody could live to be 1,000 years in perfect health and in young elite athletic bodies).
Or people in power that could afford it would use it to increase their power and rule over the commoners like yourself.
This is the correct and only answer.
Rez wrote:
UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:
Or people in power that could afford it would use it to increase their power and rule over the commoners like yourself.
This is the correct and only answer.
You could say the the same thing about the Renaissance, the printing press and the spread of ideas. Only the rich and powerful would be able to afford to print, buy, or read books.
You could say the same thing about Industrialization (and many did - they were called Luddites).
Yes it's possible that gene editing tech that will cost virtually nothing, and that is already being tested at home by amateur Joes known as 'bio-hackers', could result in the lucky few who already tend to possess the best genes for beauty, IQ at the top simply cementing their place at the top.
It's much, much more likely that as with the printing press, it will enable a distribution of 'gene wealth' just as the printing press enabled literacy and the spread of knowledge to the common people (and caused the collapse of Papal rule by dogma and the end of the medieval world).
Further, I'd rather be a commoner who is a transhumanist and in the know, than a rich person without a clue when this tech spreads rapidly and changes society almost overnight.
It's amazing the things we can accomplish if we start from the assumption that human life is inherently devoid of meaning or value, and that any amount of suffering is justified as long as it's in the name of progress (whatever progress means).
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