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World leaders are getting more stupid before our eyes though, it's not like this tech is only available until Christmas or something. Couldn't targetting specif

World leaders are getting more stupid before our eyes though, it's not like this tech is only available until Christmas or something. Couldn't targetting specific ethnicities seem feasible enough at some point that someone just might try it?

jf- 8y ago
Look, I’m no big fan of China, but why do we suddenly think they’re out to commit genocide? Let’s calm down here.
- PavlovsCat 8y ago
  Why are you putting words into my mouth, and then ask me to calm down? I asked a question, it was a serious one, so calm down and let someone have a honest shot at answering it. I was responding to someone talking about world leaders, after all. And maybe targetting on not being an ethnicity would be possible to, but who knows? So it seems China might actually be more vulnerable to something like this, having so many Han Chinese. I have no clue with what that corresponds with genetically, if anything -- but how you get from what I said to "us" "suddenly thinking" that "China is out to commit genocide" you'd have to explain, the opposite seems much more "obvious" -- the most obvious thing to engage with would be with what I actually wrote though. The overarching point here, to me, is maybe opening a pandora's box for a few benefits, most of which we could mostly have with good diet and being nice to each other, and possibly giant or species-ending drawbacks, might be a bad idea, and how "nobody would be so stupid because it would be indiscriminate" doesn't strike me as very convincing. Not even if it was necessarily indiscriminate I would be convinced by that, but let's just take that bit for granted. Why would it be indiscriminate though? Serious question, serious answers please.
  - jf- 8y ago
    Someone had their coffee today.
    - PavlovsCat 8y ago
      I'm not allowed to have coffee, on account of I fell into the cauldron as a child. kicks rocks
- gbear605 8y ago
  They are committing genocide right now.
TeMPOraL 8y ago
It definitely is considered. I'm reminded of this DEFCON talk[0] by John Sotos, then CMO of Intel, which went into more nasty and targeted applications of bioweapons. -- [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY

jf- 8y ago

Look, I’m no big fan of China, but why do we suddenly think they’re out to commit genocide? Let’s calm down here.

PavlovsCat 8y ago
Why are you putting words into my mouth, and then ask me to calm down? I asked a question, it was a serious one, so calm down and let someone have a honest shot at answering it. I was responding to someone talking about world leaders, after all. And maybe targetting on not being an ethnicity would be possible to, but who knows? So it seems China might actually be more vulnerable to something like this, having so many Han Chinese. I have no clue with what that corresponds with genetically, if anything -- but how you get from what I said to "us" "suddenly thinking" that "China is out to commit genocide" you'd have to explain, the opposite seems much more "obvious" -- the most obvious thing to engage with would be with what I actually wrote though. The overarching point here, to me, is maybe opening a pandora's box for a few benefits, most of which we could mostly have with good diet and being nice to each other, and possibly giant or species-ending drawbacks, might be a bad idea, and how "nobody would be so stupid because it would be indiscriminate" doesn't strike me as very convincing. Not even if it was necessarily indiscriminate I would be convinced by that, but let's just take that bit for granted. Why would it be indiscriminate though? Serious question, serious answers please.
- jf- 8y ago
  Someone had their coffee today.
  - PavlovsCat 8y ago
    I'm not allowed to have coffee, on account of I fell into the cauldron as a child. kicks rocks
gbear605 8y ago
They are committing genocide right now.

TeMPOraL 8y ago

It definitely is considered. I'm reminded of this DEFCON talk[0] by John Sotos, then CMO of Intel, which went into more nasty and targeted applications of bioweapons. -- [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY