It'll be more expensive to fight everyone by a long stretch. It's literally cheaper to do nothing. Also, you can get about 25lb of flour for less than ten .308 rounds.

In the world? With over 8 billion people that’s a really small number! Qualify it.

Because it's a nothing burger investment. Here's an experiment: I want to see if 10$ can change the life of a homeless person. QUICK! Get the media!

If you haven't caught the issue: it's the media attention for this investment which is literal pocket change for Amazon. If a person or entity worth only a few millions decided to make this investment, then I'd agree it's worth highlighting.

Part of the issue is people erroneously equate successful with intelligent. Which is very silly. People fail upward all the time. Some have bad luck.

College isn't really about intelligence or smart. It's about education. These words are not interchangeable but at the same time they're so entangled its almost impossible to separate them down into a single factor, let alone one you can test for in DNA.

Cool, do I have to sign up, or will it be like a lottery type thing…

The cheaper they can do it the more viable it is, so start small and work up is often the best plan.

It's an experimental idea so why would the investment be big? Seems like your just endorsing waste really. You gotta prove this stuff works, not just throw money at things and pray.

Probably just smart vertical investment based on the cost/demand for seaweed or perhaps a way to funnel losses off one project onto cost of operation of another while getting a tax break.

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Exactly. This was the point they made in the episode. Instead of helping those who need the resources, they would double down on those who needed the resources the least. (If they're great now, then just think how much greater they could be with even more resources!)

Exactly. This was the point they made in the episode. Instead of helping those who need the resources, they would double down on those who needed the resources the least. (If they're great now, then just think how much greater they could be with even more resources!)

We would straight up make baby-doodles given the chance, not even kidding.

This thinking is kind of the problem though, right?

The richest zip codes have the most success because they have the most resources. So, we should prioritize more resources for them to have even more success. Meanwhile, the places with the least resources are unable to provide children with enough preparation to be highly successful in post-mandatory educational settings, resulting in less success. So, we should provide them with even less resources since they don't have that high success rate?

I'll take how to further entrench heriditary wealth for 500, Ken

Hiya mr idranhs! No, as of today I would not change my timelines. I wrote what I believe to be realistic timelines and I was soundly downvoted to about -17 I think. So most of the people here in rslashfuturology think I am detached from reality. Here is the link to that particular statement. I make the point that AGI could come into existence at any time now and will certainly exist NLT the year 2025. Based on that, I feel that my spread for 2027, 2028 and 2029 is pretty much in the ballpark. There is yet a very low chance for ASI in 2027, but the probability rises dramatically in 2028 and peaks in 2029. After 2029 the chances greatly decrease as it is most likely the TS occurred prior to the year 2030. You can see the breakdown here and how the rslashfuturology community reacted to my forecast.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/10z90w8/one_third_of_americans_would_use_genetics_tech_to/j8264ma/

You also don't have to be smart to go to college... and plenty of smart people don't.

We are so close to Spartan-kicking babies off of cliffs aren't we?

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Stop implying something I've never said. Shout as long as you want, but the original link (and Gataca, imho), isn't about eliminating illnesses as such, but about either favoring certain embryos and/or forcing people to take careers that fit their genetic outfit, no matter if they want to or not. So forget things like freedom of any kind.

Selecting embryos due to their (perceived) chances for future college is a f*cked up idea. It's euthanasia for nothing else but, basically, intelligence. And it will, once again, favor those who can afford it and leave all others in the dust.

Eliminating illnesses on a larger scale is a completely different matter, but even that purpose is debatable. There are parents who are willing to give their unborn child a chance even if they know that it has some kind of genetic defect. And even if such measures would be reliable in the future, they'll most probably wouldn't be for the masses but for the few who can afford them.

The end result would be some very healthy, very intelligent rich people and an endless stream of poor people who, due to their "faulty" genetic composition, would be seen as mere underlings, only there to serve those that are "worthy" of good education and jobs.

Based ChatGPT, First it's dissapointed at being a part of Bing and now this.

There are droughts all over. Growing stuff in seawater gets pretty interesting. There are a lot of things you can do with seaweed besides eating. Heck if nothing else you can make fertilizer out of it, mined sources of potassium are running out as it mostly ends up in the ocean.

>countless idiots that want to use dehumidifiers to generate water from air for drinking purposes

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You mean like the idiot professor who is one of the most highly cited professors in the world, and has won the 2020 royal society Chemistry award for exactly that invention?

https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/omar-yaghi-receives-2020-royal-society-chemistry-award

Get off youtube and watching thundermoron. It's not a serious source of science.

Did you read the article?

Yeah? Sounds bad?

Imagine how kids born with MS feel. Or Palsy. Or epilepsy. Or, quite frankly, any of tens of thousands of other diseases.

Imagine having a heart defect that could’ve been fixed when you were a kid, but which went untreated because your parents either didn’t care enough, or didn’t understand, or had some sort of ideological opposition to the tech that would fix you.

Imagine how much. Less freedom you would feel if your body didn’t allow you to do things that others could.

Sounds pretty fucked, right? Sounds like you want eliminated EXACTLY WHAT THE GATTACA SOCIETY WAS ELIMINATING

This was a great read. I found it especially interesting that with a crew of 60 if everyone rowed for 1 hour per day on a rowing machine hooked up to a generator they wouldn’t need any other type of fuel source but the ship owners were worried about the impression that would give.

ILO is left wing political group, not a professional research institution. What is with this sub turning into r/politics with constant doomerism?