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If this leads to "enhanced" humans, I wonder how countries will react to competition from modified humans that can better compete. The human race is in the unf
by yipbub 8y ago
If this leads to "enhanced" humans, I wonder how countries will react to competition from modified humans that can better compete.
The human race is in the unfortunate position of needing global regulation, and having a push back against globalization.
I don't know if the path of corporate globalization we are on can help either. We need a non-profit approach to global regulation of technologies like genetic engineering, self driving vehicles, and AI deployment because each of these has the potential to completely reshape the human condition.
I wonder if countries could cooperate on issues like this in a meaningful way. Can we come up with a sufficient momentum without drivers like profit or fear? Both of these drivers should ideally drive rational people to take action on these issues, but I think the perceived difficulty is what makes us ignore it. We need to clarify a path to profit and security for people to see taking action on this as an option they can take.
I'm an intern at a software company, what can I do? I'm struggling with choosing between the long term and the short term. The wide view and the narrow focus. For now, I'm building the scaffolding of my life, so that when I see an option that has better tradeofs between these I can take it and build something.
- thefounder 8y agoMaybe the enhanced humans will find a way to enhance poor old grandpha!...getting smart after being dumb must feel better than being "born" smart.
- Zarath 8y agoI think we need a total re-evaluation of human rights for the modern age. I'm not terrified of technology or this technology in particular. Just this technology existing within the current power structures of our society.
- beerlord 8y agoWe will soon come to the point of realisation that billions of humans are superfluous, and that the lands they occupy would be better off as huge nature parks. Any critical farming or mining operations can be carried out mostly by robot labour and a few genetically uplifted human engineers.
- tejtm 8y agoand on a different rock
- Nasrudith 8y agoThe same way that uneducated and less nourished compete basically. We didn't burn down colleges because education is unfair to the uneducated. We have had that and to some a degree being able to escape regulation a very good thing. Under that kind of thinking we need to ban farm mechanization because having a peasantry not preoccupied by labor intensive farming is dangerous. Just look at the cousin to that framework with the War On Drugs. Not only deciding prohibition on a larger scale would work but to research alone - psychedelics have proven useful for PTSD and we could have had widespread responsible treatment by the 80s at latest if we were really cautious about deployment. The petty evil of the motivation of the war on drugs against political enemies while leaving veterans from an extended war untreated because of it. I have seen many fearmonger that humanity isn't ready for the responsibility these advances - I say humanity isn't ready to restrain itself responsibly.