pcnonpc

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by pcnonpc 9y ago
I answered the comment which used "extremely poor" and "subsistence farmers" so I used the international poverty line ($1.90). At $3.2 (World Bank's lower middle income poverty line), it was 12.1% or 160 million pe
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
The current number of extremely poor people in China is less than 30 million, less than 2% of population. From Google: "According to the World Bank, more than 500 million people were lifted out of extreme poverty as China's povert
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
US pension funds together are worth $22 trillion. This is 61% of global pension funds and much much larger than the Saudi funds. They should invest a small part into Vision Funds and other VCs!
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
If the drug is out of patent and it is very profitable, why doesn't anyone set up a company to manufacture and sell it cheaper in the US? Same question with epipen.
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
Is it not possible to order a generic from India or another country? The drug should be out of patent a long while already? If no competitor is available, why doesn't anyone set it up? It looks like a great startup opportunity.
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
The current statistics in 2017 is around 600 million in rural area. Their monthly income is 3300 yuan or around 500 USD, more than $15 a day. According to World Bank, a country with $6000 USD a year is upper-middle income. If you count the
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
Economic growth is usually measured in percentage terms. There are good reasons for that. If they can keep the growth rate, the Chinese economy will be larger than the US in about 10 or 15 years. China's is still a developing economy a
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
Some populations practice having as many children as they can because their belief system calls for it. They believe they will get more brownie points from a supreme being for that. So these groups will get more share of the basic income in
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
What does Italy have that China cannot produce itself? Brand name products, basic machines and chemicals which Italy exports are not important to their development. Russia has oil, minerals and iron which China needs to grow.
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
China's shifting to domestic consumption and strong Yuan is better than weak Yuan. Strong currency will also reduce capital flight from the country and increase its financial powers to buy world resources such as mining rights and comp
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
I don't think the religions preach what people want to hear. They built procreation into their belief system to make sure they will have bigger and bigger adherents. It works and many of those religions are much larger today than other
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
Several major religions in poor developing countries preach having more kids. They don't care about environmental impact or sustainability. They believe their God will provide. How would we deal with that?
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China May Soon Surpass America on the Artificial Intelligence Battlefield(nationalinterest.org)
2 points by pcnonpc 9y ago|0 comments
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America Can't Afford to Lose the Artificial Intelligence War(nationalinterest.org)
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
People care about many things. But if they get one good thing like intelligence without losing others, they will go for it. In China, they do not have religious reasons against improving humans. And parents rely on kids to take care of them
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
Other powers have nukes too, so using it is out of the question. If nukes are not used, technology and economic capacity will determine the results. Russia has a lot of good engineers and scientists but they don't have the industrial c
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U.S. developers have the numbers, but China and Russia have the skills(itworld.com)
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
With a large number of DNA sequences, the genetic cause can be separated from environmental. That's why embryo selection is possible. Getting parent's DNAs sequenced might be needed but it's affordable now. See gwern's a
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
Modern advanced society already requires a high minimum intelligence for people to function in especially to hold a respectable job or be a respectable member of a community. The minimum is increasing when more automation is used for most k
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
To relate this to the news about CTE in American Football, I wonder how much American mental potential has been lost to CTE. One thing for sure, very few East Asian and few Asian American parents who are aware of the news will allow their k
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
To flesh out a large range of implications will take at least an effort worthy of a PhD dissertation. With successful embryo selection, at least we can keep up with the increasingly higher minimum IQ needed to function well in advanced soci
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
The interview was mainly about embryo selection, not genetic engineering.
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
Source? or calculation? The guy giving the figure is an evolutionary psychologist.
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
Or they could build billions of robots with thousands of variations to make everyone live like a king. And they will have high enough IQ to maintain and improve them as they wish. Without say IQ of 100 or more maintenance of advanced robots
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
The East Asian culture strongly values intelligence and education. The parents there WILL act on embryo selection and genetic engineering when it is available and safe.
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
From the piece, it shouldn't take very long to put it to use. "When do you think the embryo analysis might be implemented on a large scale? Actual use of the technology to do embryo screening might take five to ten years, but it c
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
"Given the Mendelian genetic lottery, the kids produced by any one couple typically differ by 5 to 15 IQ points . So this method of "preimplantation embryo selection" might allow IQ within every Chinese family to increase by
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China Is Engineering Genius Babies (2013)(vice.com)
116 points by pcnonpc 9y ago|135 comments
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
" Q: Could it develop into something more sinister? A: That same research does open up the door potentially to genetic engineering in the future. But that would take a lot longer to make practical. === Q: When do you think the embryo
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by pcnonpc 9y ago
From an interview with Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist: "Q: What does that mean in human language? A: Any given couple could potentially have several eggs fertilized in the lab with the dad’s sperm and the mom’s eggs. The

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