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WildWook t1_j9golh9 wrote

Reply to When will genetic engineering be available for psychiatric disorders? by undefined2937

Imo pharmacology will get their first with acceptable "cures" for these. They're discovering more and more that most mental illness is caused by various imbalances that can be remedied via supplementation or modification. The problem is our methods currently are very clunky and cause a host of other awful symptoms when applied.

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radalab t1_j9gnhy9 wrote

Reply to How good the US will be for living in future for those who will be earning decent?? by [deleted]

My wife and I bought our first home at 29yo last year. We both have our masters and can afford to go on multiple vacations a year. We live in a central suburb to Philly, an affordable city. Between the 2 of us we earn 140k a year, our sallaries likely could double in the next 10 years if we get a good career path. Were investing a solid 12% of our income so we should be able to retire early. Even if you earn less than us or are single you could buy a condo or townhome in an affordable city with a decent trade job or something comparable. And have a pretty nice standard of living.

As long as you go to an afordable college or tradeschool, get a job that you don't hate, and develop your career, and live in a city with housing that you can afford. You should have a better standard of living than 95% of people alive.

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TheBounceSpotter t1_j9gmbg9 wrote

Reply to Would the most sentient ai ever actually experience emotion or does it just think it is? Is the thinking strong enough to effectively be emotion? by wonderingandthinking

Yes, but Machine emotion would be much different from human emotion. A machine has no glands, no hormones, no receptors. So most of what you call emotion wouldn't exist for them. They would likely still understand the frustration of having obstacles in their way. They would still likely have some sentimental bias for favored ideas, things, people, even if only from a flawed weighting system that would function like familiarity. A more interesting question is how your "emotions" would be effected were you to have your brain uploaded into a machine and became an AI. How quickly would you lose your sense of self?

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Wtygrrr t1_j9gj8ai wrote

Reply to comment by Iffykindofguy in How good the US will be for living in future for those who will be earning decent?? by [deleted]

I didn’t say the state was bad, and I didn’t say billionaires were good. The fact that billionaires exist is a huge problem with the world.

If you have so little interest in what anyone else actually says or believes that you immediately resort to bizarre straw men without even trying, why bother posting about politics in the first place? Seems like a total waste of time for you.

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