antepodius

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by antepodius 6y ago
I'd say it's more that death is a price people would be willing to pay in return for getting to live for some number of years in the absence of any better options (like not dying).
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by antepodius 6y ago
Why does it matter if everyone else is immortal and invulnerable?
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by antepodius 6y ago
Why are you sticking around, then?
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by antepodius 6y ago
Why should we care what our genes want? Also, as tech advances, the need for slow recombination goes away, as people can alter their genes and body on the fly. Supersede natural evolution, rather than bowing to it.
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by antepodius 6y ago
There's a big difference between dying because the negentropy finally ran out, after billions of years in the height of life's power in thr universe, and being snuffed out by something as banal as biological malfunction after the
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by antepodius 6y ago
Why the only ones? That hasn't been the general arc of tech-advancement. You think the rich and powerful are going to prevent companies from making money by selling life-extension to the poor by figuring out how to do it more cheaply
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by antepodius 6y ago
How much of that is because your brain starts degrading after 30? 50-year olds are alreasy partially brain-damaged.
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by antepodius 6y ago
Then let the motivation be spite; at least I'm going to outlive the stars.
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by antepodius 6y ago
You would have a simulated body, simulated environment.
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by antepodius 6y ago
Ah, but the lunar orbital elevator can also act as a cell tower that covers nearly half the lunar surface
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by antepodius 6y ago
Does woke religion offer a path to redemption?
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by antepodius 6y ago
Disrupt everything? Software eats the world?
43.
by antepodius 6y ago
Well, it enables a greater proliferation of 'smart' devices with greater bandwidth, so yes.
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by antepodius 6y ago
You could make a similar argument about destroying most small businesses and replacing them with amazon, permanently, for an 'if'.
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by antepodius 6y ago
He presumably lets them drive cars, and probably doesn't implore them to cut sugars out of their diet. So yes.
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by antepodius 6y ago
What makes you so sure your mind hasn't been pwned in an analogous way targeted towards smarter/more sophisticated demographics? A priori, I would expect more educated people to be more easily controlled/brainwashed; that&#x2
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by antepodius 6y ago
Free speech as an ideal is older than the US government. It means limiting negative consequences for people speaking their minds. Also, when FAANG eats the world, Google/Facebook's moderation team becomes a de facto arm of the lo
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by antepodius 6y ago
You're free to say what you want- but not from the secret police hauling you off to a gulag for it.
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by antepodius 6y ago
People are adaption-executers, not fitness-maximisers. Most gene lines fail.
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by antepodius 6y ago
What makes you think you live in an exceptional time of historical ignorance?
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by antepodius 6y ago
Whatever behaviours are fit are just the ones that stick around. In, say, the developed world, we have 2 main competitors: have lots of kids, and try to teach them to behave as you do; or have fewer/no kids and try and spread your pa
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by antepodius 6y ago
What's the magic about meat that lets it create consciousness, then?
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by antepodius 6y ago
Being the worst in the class a) makes you more likely to fail university b) threatens to make you feel like a fraudulent idiot, undermining your self-confidence in the long run. Would I personally pick worst in class at a top uni over middl
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by antepodius 6y ago
Even if you're rich? Nice.
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by antepodius 6y ago
Because then you might have poor people at Yale. Worse, poor whites. The people at Yale would never stand for it.
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by antepodius 6y ago
You've always been allowed to discriminate, as long as it's against whatever the socially acceptable targets are at the time, in a socially accepted venue.
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by antepodius 6y ago
Are they? They're useful to individual slaveowners with enough capital they can have the slaves work. But what about for the working class? People in the U.S. today remark that immigrants willing to work for lower wages than locals
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by antepodius 6y ago
Slower to learn, but with a higher cap, and more likely to endure for four more decades than a given learn-in-two-weeks gui program.
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by antepodius 6y ago
People focus too much on swords, anyway. Pole weapons were the primary melee weapons for most combatants, including samurai, with swords being akin to sidearms. But there are certainly trade-offs in design. Katanas are good at chopping un
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by antepodius 6y ago
Men with guns threatened to go to his place of work and close it for them if it didn't close on its own.

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