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Andrespetmonkey said:
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Those things can be improved through other forms of human enhancement/augmentation, and in the very long-term will probably become obsolete.

In the very long term, we will build a computer that can improve and build out itself efficiently. This will obsolete humans.

In the meantime, people will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for their son or daughter to have a guarantee of Harvard admission level intelligence.

One of those has a good chance of being a massive problem in your lifetime.



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Andrespetmonkey said:
Roma said:
sorry can't take evolution seriously

I'm growing a second penis and a second pair of arms

how can whale b hooman!?!??? 

whales don't have two pairs of arms nor do they have a second penis

 



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padib said:

There is no next step. Evolution is a fairy tale.

to the ignorant who believe in planetary floods and that the human populace as we know it came to be, twice, from rampant incest? Yes, the highly supported theory of evolution by natural selection is a fairy tale. But that's only because it directly contradicts their religious creation story that has 0 evidence. And the funny part is that the "fairy tale" is "just a theory" even though the theory of gravitation, atomic theory, and germ theory have less evidence supporting them than evolution, but they probably don't think they can jump off a cliff and not fall down, or that they can pass through walls, or that if you hang around a sick person, you won't get sick.





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the_dengle said:
Probably the next step would be to stop having wisdom teeth. We evolved past the need for them thousands of years ago, yet most humans still grow them eventually.


This would actually be nice. I have one growing in right now and it's fucking aggravating



Soleron said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
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Those things can be improved through other forms of human enhancement/augmentation, and in the very long-term will probably become obsolete.

In the very long term, we will build a computer that can improve and build out itself efficiently. This will obsolete humans.

In the meantime, people will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for their son or daughter to have a guarantee of Harvard admission level intelligence.

One of those has a good chance of being a massive problem in your lifetime.

People already do at... I don't know about it being a "good chance of being a massive problem", why do you think that?

A Harvard admission level of intelligence seems almost redundant in the post-singularity world, which is only a couple decades away mind you, well within both our lifetimes while we're still young and likely have many years ahead. 



Andrespetmonkey said:
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A Harvard admission level of intelligence seems almost redundant in the post-singularity world, which is only a couple decades away mind you, well within both our lifetimes while we're still young and likely have many years ahead. 

I don't see the timeline unfolding like that. I see gradual expansion of the scope of genetic engineering within say 50 years, but not a technological singularity or similar.



padib said:

There is no next step. Evolution is a fairy tale.

There are clear examples of evolution that we have seen in the past couple of enturies.



This is the Game of Thrones

Where you either win

or you DIE

SlayerRondo said:
padib said:

There is no next step. Evolution is a fairy tale.

There are clear examples of evolution that we have seen in the past couple of enturies.





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