Re:Dreams of improving the human race are no longer science ...
by lazide on Monday June 09, 2025 @03:52AM
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you’re literally the only one talking about impossibility. hard pass.
Re:Dreams of improving the human race are no longer science ...
by n4r9 on Monday June 09, 2025 @04:18AM
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> [evolving past competition] makes no sense ... as evolution is fundamentally competitive
Re:Dreams of improving the human race are no longer science ...
by lazide on Monday June 09, 2025 @05:24AM
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You seem to have some trouble with words and concepts. And what seems to be a - creepy? - obsession with people losing their individual reproductive autonomy for some nebulous ‘greater good’.
Taking a hammer and using it to smash my hand for no individual benefit is unlikely and makes no sense, but certainly not impossible. Everyone on the planet doing it all at once, continuously, is also technically not impossible - but is never going to happen. For reasons that are very good for humanity in the long run.
Such as it is with evolution.
Not unless the borg take over anyway. Which we all should hope never, ever, happens.
Re:Dreams of improving the human race are no longer science ...
by n4r9 on Monday June 09, 2025 @08:11AM
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There's no need for that hostility. I'm just spitballing charitable interpretations of rbanffy's statement.
Re:Dreams of improving the human race are no longer science ...
by lazide on Monday June 09, 2025 @11:45AM
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Regardless of what humans do, gene based evolution is constant. And even if we go full cloning - there is still gene based evolution which can (and certainly would) occur even in humans because humans work like humans. Regardless of what we pretend to work as.
Which is back to my original point. You can’t ‘compile your way out of compilers’ either. The entire discussion is just ignoring actual reality in a way that makes no actual sense to even discuss.
Any such system would probably match people within the same generation. At a future point humans may be far more ethnically homogeneous. Or reproduction may be separated from romance - you donate to the seed bank but sex is a sterile act. There's lots of possibilities. I admit most look unlikely; but like, if that's what it takes to thrive at a galactic level, then it's simply unlikely we never reach that level. But let's not pretend that this is some sort of fundamental biological impossibility.