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Couldn't this be said about medicine in general?

• gmac 10y ago
  Yes. The better medicine gets, the feebler we all become. This is a pity, but the alternative is worse[1]. [1] https://www.quora.com/Are-we-eliminating-natural-selection-by-helping-the-poor-the-ill-and-the-weak https://www.quora.com/Are-we-eliminating-natural-selection-b...
  • grondilu 10y ago
    There is not only one alternative.
  • lostlogin 10y ago
    It's not a pity at all. Everyone who is around that wouldn't be without modern medicine imparts something to those around them. To give an extreme example, Stephen Hawking.
  • zamalek 10y ago
    What I've realized is that sapiens is the first species to fall off of the evolution gradient. The more intellectual we become, the less dependent we will be on a random optimization function. We are scared about how AI would leap ahead of biology, don't neglect that we are leaping ahead of the rest of biology because we have biological intelligence. We're just not making good use of our intelligence yet.