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Do we? What would that look like? Edit: missed the "if". Assuming you put that there because we currently do not have this tech. Speculatively: like most soc
by throwaway_5753 3y ago
Do we? What would that look like?
Edit: missed the "if". Assuming you put that there because we currently do not have this tech. Speculatively: like most society wide moral choices, it'd probably be made in such a way as to serve the short term interests of whoever had the power to enact the policy.
Alternatively: Would octopus uplift increase the quarterly profits? If so, say hello to your new eight-legged neighbors.
- frabcus 3y agoNeuralink for cephalopods.
- Escapado 3y agoPlease no. Make my dog smarter so she can use the toilet or not roll in poop, great. But I don’t want to be attacked by Cthulus spawn at night.
- dr_dshiv 3y agoGenetically engineered octopi could be developed to grow hard little nubs on their tentacles so they were capable of giving massage therapy. Quarterly profits indeed! But then, perhaps they would learn to give each other nub rubs and then we’d have this runaway hedonic biological phenomena underseas. My god.