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It's this core idea that compromise is equivalence that I was arguing against. You're comparing the fish with the birds, but you're forgetting the other fish th
by Veedrac 7y ago
It's this core idea that compromise is equivalence that I was arguing against. You're comparing the fish with the birds, but you're forgetting the other fish that got infected with some specific disease before going extinct. Humans are new, living in environments a thousand times newer. There is very little reason to believe that we've hit a local optimum, and a lot to believe that some mental characteristics (like being in the bottom half of aggressiveness) would be pretty much universally positive.
- lanstin 7y agoOh my god the hubris. You want to start engineering out agressiveness potential? Given that genes code for a system that is then trained by experience maybe you want to tweak the training set first.
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- lanstin 7y agoMalaria vaccination/parasite elimination/even vector elimination would seems to have a different risk/cost/benefit profile than removing, without anfull knowledge of the biology or the social stability implications, a defining emotional/mental characteristic of our species. But whatever, maybe you plan this change just for the "betas and gammas" we alphas can keep flaming away.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't call names in arguments on HN. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.