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Lots of AI content recently (and I am working on AI-adjacent stuff myself lol), but I am most excited for upcoming medical changes. Cure every disease, then let

Lots of AI content recently (and I am working on AI-adjacent stuff myself lol), but I am most excited for upcoming medical changes. Cure every disease, then let people have designer bodies if they like.

bigfishrunning 3y ago
I can't wait to grow all those extra fingers and teeth!
evrimoztamur 3y ago
You might enjoy Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future if that idea is appealing to you. Very curious execution of a disease-free bio-tech (organ-ic-tech?) future.
- foco_tubi 3y ago
  I just wanna be able to digest plastic
  - numtel 3y ago
    I was wondering about new digestive capabilities recently and wrote this blurb: https://clonk.me/nft/137/0x8abd8d9fab3f711b16d15ce48747db49672eedb2/9 https://clonk.me/nft/137/0x8abd8d9fab3f711b16d15ce48747db496... If we could eat different things, we could give up agriculture and save a bunch of land and energy.
  - MiddleEndian 3y ago
    Speaking of digesting random things, I found myself bored in the shoe section of some store (I wanna say Nordstroms), and I was curious if I could eat the leather shoes. Beef is beef, right? Apparently you cannot digest leather due to the chemicals involved in the curing process.
    - selcuka 3y ago
      > I was curious if I could eat the leather shoes. Beef is beef, right? This was a recurring theme in Lucky Luke [1]. The titular hero cooks and eats his boots when he faces starvation, usually when he gets lost in the desert. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luke
  - huppeldepup 3y ago
    why digest plastic if you can photosynthesise
- MiddleEndian 3y ago
  I'm a big Cronenberg fan but I haven't seen this one (these ones? as there seem to be two). Would you recommend the 1970 or the 2022 version?
  - evrimoztamur 3y ago
    Sorry, I wasn't even aware of 1970. They are apparently unrelated, it is 2022 that I was referring to.
    - MiddleEndian 3y ago
      Excellent, thanks!
z7 3y ago
Why stop there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_suffering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_suffering
- AmericanChopper 3y ago
  Why stop there? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
  - deleted 3y ago
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__loam 3y ago
I think we're pretty far away from designer bodies. We might solve a lot of cancer in our lifetimes though.

bigfishrunning 3y ago

I can't wait to grow all those extra fingers and teeth!

evrimoztamur 3y ago

You might enjoy Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future if that idea is appealing to you. Very curious execution of a disease-free bio-tech (organ-ic-tech?) future.

foco_tubi 3y ago
I just wanna be able to digest plastic
- numtel 3y ago
  I was wondering about new digestive capabilities recently and wrote this blurb: https://clonk.me/nft/137/0x8abd8d9fab3f711b16d15ce48747db49672eedb2/9 https://clonk.me/nft/137/0x8abd8d9fab3f711b16d15ce48747db496... If we could eat different things, we could give up agriculture and save a bunch of land and energy.
- MiddleEndian 3y ago
  Speaking of digesting random things, I found myself bored in the shoe section of some store (I wanna say Nordstroms), and I was curious if I could eat the leather shoes. Beef is beef, right? Apparently you cannot digest leather due to the chemicals involved in the curing process.
  - selcuka 3y ago
    > I was curious if I could eat the leather shoes. Beef is beef, right? This was a recurring theme in Lucky Luke [1]. The titular hero cooks and eats his boots when he faces starvation, usually when he gets lost in the desert. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luke
- huppeldepup 3y ago
  why digest plastic if you can photosynthesise
MiddleEndian 3y ago
I'm a big Cronenberg fan but I haven't seen this one (these ones? as there seem to be two). Would you recommend the 1970 or the 2022 version?
- evrimoztamur 3y ago
  Sorry, I wasn't even aware of 1970. They are apparently unrelated, it is 2022 that I was referring to.
  - MiddleEndian 3y ago
    Excellent, thanks!

z7 3y ago

Why stop there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_suffering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_suffering

AmericanChopper 3y ago
Why stop there? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
- deleted 3y ago
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__loam 3y ago

I think we're pretty far away from designer bodies. We might solve a lot of cancer in our lifetimes though.