Think of the real estate value living near the food forest... Like central park in NYC, why don't we cut that in half and put up more high rises on our precious expensive land.
"breeding out" is the horrible version of eugenics.
Gene editing is the less family destroying, individual abusing way to go. As long as it's more focused on disease removal and less about having thousands of [insert favorite movie star/model here] walking around.
Like klyrs said, we want some weird in the gene pool
Gene editing is also the only way we'll get offworld-hardy humans. The time it will take to naturally select, when throwing unfit after unfit is impractical. This is still the same concept as "thousands of [model here] walking around", but with a focus on different traits.
This is all far-future when we are more experienced and knowledgeable about genes in total, at least after having made loads of mistakes. That's worrying, but inevitable.
We're going to have to rewrite humanity from the ground up if we want to colonize space because these delicate eggshell bodies of ours are just not compatible with hard vacuum. Nor will they fare well in inhospitable planetary environments.
Which is why I roll my eyes realizing that none of that will happen for a very long time but if you could make 60-year-olds look like 30-year-olds with an mRNA treatment or something similar, you would make Bezos and Musk look like paupers. It wouldn't even have to make you young on the inside and you'd still die in a decade or two but at least you'd leave a beautiful corpse because that's all that matters in the end.
I do love lucid dreams but I'm going to need milder non-prescription chemicals.
Just need to be content practicing the mnemonic induction I guess, I've never done it seriously enough to see if it works. Similarly with those games to try to improve your working memory.
5-HTP is a non-prescription supplement that is said to help with lucid dreaming. Take 100 or 200mg the same way as they do with galantamine in the paper, i.e. wake up after first sleep, take 5-HTP, remain awake for a half hour, then go back to sleep.
I cowardly use tabs viewed as 2 spaces so if needed in the future some quick lazy code like sed can convert it to 4 spaces or something if someone demands.
Notepad++ has a nice feature to convert leading spaces and tabs back and forth though I never used it on a big mess of a file to convert to tabs to see if it is successful there.
Every editor I've encountered beyond Notepad/Wordpad let's the user specify tabwidth.
The accessiblity issue for me is poverty and eyestrain. I like big fonts on my small monitor in my small apartment.
Throwing around 'psychopaths' remember a good number of people grow up with abuse or neglect. Probably easier for them not to care about distant strangers and meaningless numbers. We are a vast planet with 99.99% of people in need of serious therapy. (Probably everyone)
I'm curious the statistics of how many people have lost a close contact in the pandemic to COVID. Maybe a lot of deaths are neglected parents and grandparents which is why it seems like so few people care about taking COVID precautions seriously anymore. In the US it seems we are past fatigue into exhaution in the majority even as cases continue in the unvaccinated kids and adults.
