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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by api on Sunday May 23, 2021 @10:05AM (#27255074)
How do you improve your genes? Removing obvious deleterious disease mutations is easy, but as soon as you try to “go where there are no roads” you hit the same combinatorial challenge as evolution.

Also more intelligence does not equal better ideas. The world is full of crazy or amoral people with apparently very high IQs. Your average flat Earther probably has an above average IQ.

Improvement is a war against entropy and n^n^n^… combinatorics any way you slice it.

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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by cutemonster on Sunday May 23, 2021 @10:53AM (#27255381)
> How do you improve your genes?

Slowly across hundreds and thousands of generations.

By adding evolutionary pressure, for what they want -- it'd be up to those space traveling aliens to decide -- they can change their species, generations into the future.

> Improvement is a war against entropy ...

Reasoning in that way, the humans would not have gotten brighter than the chimpanzee monkeys. There's been evolutionary pressure for the humans to get brighter, and it would be possible for you (I mean the humans), or the space travelers, to add artificial ev. pressure.

Anyway never mind all this, maybe talking about space travelers and the humans and their genes isn't the best way to spend the day. Have a nice day btw

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