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This is pretty awesome. But do I wonder if something like this will be implanted by default at some point in human history and only removed when certain specifi
by jqm 12y ago
This is pretty awesome. But do I wonder if something like this will be implanted by default at some point in human history and only removed when certain specifications are met.
I don't know if that would be bad or good. Looking around the world I'm not sure I feel it would be all bad. But yes.. abuse potential and _who decides... I know....
- tesq 12y agoWe have a millenia of past attempts to draw from to help you decide whether that would be good or bad. What problems would this solve?
- jqm 12y agoEfficiency. It's eventually selected for.
- XorNot 12y agoImplanting at birth, activating at a suitable marker point after puberty (a sensor which monitors normal progesterone levels would actually be fine for this) and de-activated when a women wants to conceive. It'd be the most important bit of social policy in human history, seeing as how reproductive control and economic outcomes for women are very closely linked. Something like this applied en masse in developing nations would also directly save a lot of lives.
- gambiting 12y ago<puts the tinfoil hat on> And then you need to get a deactivation code from the government to disable the implant to conceive. So the government gets the power to decide who can have children. This concept sounds very enticing and I think it would actually be a good idea,if not for the fact that I don't think anyone should hold that power over other people, even if it's in best intentions.
- XorNot 12y agoI see you've left out the implicit anti-tamper device that explodes and kills you. Obviously we'd just put that in.