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Humans can likely be cloned too. Imagine 10,000 Albert Einsteins and John von Neumanns working together with modern AI on medical, scientific, and societal iss
by apt-apt-apt-apt 4mo ago
Humans can likely be cloned too.
Imagine 10,000 Albert Einsteins and John von Neumanns working together with modern AI on medical, scientific, and societal issues.
Though there could be an Evil Einstein due to upbringing or something.
- thefounder 4mo agoI am not sure if the Einsteins you clone would do what you want. Maybe they will want to be influencers on short video platforms.
- jfyi 4mo ago[dead]
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- didibus 4mo agoDon't twin studies mostly show this wouldn't be the case?
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- SauntSolaire 4mo agoSeems to be working pretty well in the case of these horses.
- downrightmike 4mo agoNope, that's what relativistic slugs are for
- readthenotes1 4mo agoYou are such an optimist. We are more likely to get clones of athletes, and clones of billionaires for the organ donation options. I doubt people like Jonas Salk would accept being cloned if they could help it
- ThrustVectoring 4mo ago[flagged]
- m463 4mo agoI would watch him carefully if he grew a goatee or something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror,_Mirror_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror,_Mirror_(Star_Trek:_The...
- dtj1123 4mo agoHowever unlikely it may be, when I see a wealthy celebrity with a doppleganger child the thought crosses my mind that they may have had themselves cloned. The resemblance between young Donald Trump and his son Barron is uncanny, for example.
- throwaway132448 4mo agoNarcissists date people that have physical features they see in themselves.
- probably_wrong 4mo agoI am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. (quote by Stephen Jay Gould)
- jatora 4mo agoI don't see the point of your comment besides sidestepping a clearly revolutionary mind and an interesting scenario.
- probably_wrong 4mo agoThe point of my comment is to call attention to the SV tendency of hyper-focusing on the newest shiny toy as a solution to all problems while ignoring the real solutions to the real problems we have right now. If we assume roughly 1.2k people were as smart as Einstein when he was born then, thanks to birth rates, we could have our "10000 Albert Einsteins" today. Statistically speaking ~3k of them alone were born in either India or China and are probably working a regular, badly-to-okay paid job [1]. We could be recruiting them today. But no one cares about that because the premise is flawed and it's not about solving "medical, scientific, and societal issues". It's about making money and chasing "interesting scenarios" instead of actual solutions. As the meme format goes, men will literally clone Albert Einstein's brain instead of giving proper funding to schools. And sure, chasing SF scenarios is fun, but let's not pretend that any of it is about making society better. As the sibling comment points out, we are more likely to get a clone of Rupert Murdoch than one of Stephen Hawking. [1] For extra irony we can imagine a non-zero number of them work for patent offices.
- SauntSolaire 4mo agoWell it would certainly help to know before they're born which children are going to be Einstein. Maybe with ten thousand of them around we could ask some to help sort the education system out.
- Ma8ee 4mo ago