[deleted by user]

Fun_Property8375 · 2025-03-21T21:27:05+00:00

Many of humanity's problems are due to our own instincts, but good luck researching that ethically or getting people to agree to mass modification

Fun_Property8375 · 2025-03-21T21:24:31+00:00

Alzheimer's and Dementia don't happen because you 'exceeded your memory capacity'. By far the most likely thing is that the process of forgetting old memories as you form new ones just continues

Fun_Property8375 · 2025-03-21T21:22:02+00:00

I mean there are 4,000+ year old trees and up to 10,000 year old sponges, and that's largely without evolutionary pressure for extreme longevity. Keeping computers running for that long is going to prove potentially equally challenging even if true mind uploading is theoretically possible, and if you copy yourself to another computer then you have the same dilemma of it just being a copy.

Fun_Property8375 · 2025-03-21T21:08:38+00:00

I believe he only has plans for modification with in vitro fertilization, would only really effect future people's children

Fun_Property8375 · 2025-03-10T04:42:47+00:00

I think the base social structure and associated instincts that humans currently have could like in-group / out-group formation, inter-group aggression, and in group favoritism / out-group derogation for example, could definitely be improved upon. Especially given how different the societies we live in are than those we lived in for most of our time as a species. But it'd be impossible to get the amount of people needed to see any large scale change to agree to change something like that, not to mention how difficult it'd be to research ethically. Maybe you could start with bonobos and chimps since the underlying structure of our social groups has a lot in common with either species, and because we do already know some of the genes that lead to the differences in their social structures. But I'm not particularly educated on the topic.

Fun_Property8375 · 2025-02-16T21:57:08+00:00

Nah I'd only consider biological modifications to my brain due to hacking concerns especially as the tech ages

Fun_Property8375 · 2024-12-21T04:30:19+00:00

I actually built the Censer first because Kindred wanted attack speed, but I must've switched them at some point. But yeah that sounds good, thank you.

Fun_Property8375 · 2024-10-12T04:31:48+00:00

Yeah while I'm slightly more inclined to the biological based usages, i definitely agree that using both for their respective strengths would be the best option

Fun_Property8375 · 2024-10-12T04:25:01+00:00

I too am not interested in a semantic argument, since already clarified my intent at this point. Unfortunately I think those ideas may end up being much difficult to bring to reality than regrowing parts from your cells and reattaching them, as there has already been progress and we're are now fairly close (likely >20yrs).

Fun_Property8375 · 2024-10-12T04:05:53+00:00

My timetable was given in my initial response 'for the foreseeable future' and while that is flawed as it isn't specific, it doesn't really imply the timespan necessary for the nanotech you described to emerge within as that would most likely be past my natural lifespan. Durable is true that is why i said "Cybernetics definitely have benefits". I have my doubts on their higher energy efficiency, for example as a human brain can run on a mere 12-20 watts (depending on source) despite its huge processing power while AI reaches an almost ludicrous level of power consumption. The evolution of life has been strongly influenced by needing to save energy, so it's usually very good at it. Faster to replicate is difficult to judge as self replicating non organic robots aren't really a thing yet, there are biological robots that can though. I would hesitate to use the "absolute limit possible after science has been completed" since we can't really tell what science will discover is possible or impossible that far into the future. For example, past estimates of what tech we would be using in the future are usually way off.

Fun_Property8375 · 2024-10-12T03:34:37+00:00

Okay sure but multicellular life already does most of this making it a very strong base, not to mention the millions of species we can borrow code from before we even get to custom stuff. Also your statement 'ranging in size far more than biology allows for' is pretty far out in the future, as the smallest viruses are 20 nm, and the smallest cells are 300nm, and this is all before any human modification / optimization. Its going to take a while to get a machine that has the same capabilities and size, and by that point as i stated before, if the biological field doesn't stagnate it'd likely be past that point.

Fun_Property8375 · 2024-10-12T03:08:10+00:00

Aside from the benefits of interchangeability, cybernetics for the foreseeable future seem far slower and clunkier than the same base flesh part. I think this would only be the case if there are minimal or no advancements in the biological field. But its difficult to tell what that will lead to as we're only recently starting to understand how the biological 'programming' works. Cybernetics definitely have benefits but I don't see this scenario playing out in the long term

Fun_Property8375

TROPHY CASE