Not The Onion

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[–] stephan262@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I have a feeling it's gonna be a long road, getting from here to there with eugenics. I'd much rather use technology to overcome our limitations.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I would like to overcome my limitations in this fashion. Aside from my tongue and naughty bits, the human body doesn't offer me any experience that I enjoy.

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[–] electrotabby@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I would watch the cybernetic olympics.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 point 8 months ago

It would be like Robot Wars, but with a lot more strategies. Rock wall climb? Hover boots, piledriver spikes, gecko skin, and so on. Someone should make an anime or show focused on robosports.

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[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

From the moment I understood the weakness of my Flesh

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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

Wishing to become just a brain in a robot body sadly misunderstands the totality of the human body. It’s been shown that gut biome affects mental health, for example.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 point 8 months ago

One would assume that a robotic body would have devices and supplement cartridges for that, automatically monitored and regulated. The human body is a machine - but a robotic version would be actually optimally designed, rather than an endless variety of useful accidents. Even better, you can move the brain into different vessel shapes, each built for a particular purpose.

In any case, converting a fleshy brain's memories into an computerized format would be preferable. Unfortunately, I suspect that is hard to pull off without being lossy or fatal.

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[–] HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 3 points 8 months ago

Eugenics have a bad rep since they were popularized by nazis. But hey - animal rights and identification documents were also initially nazi ideas and they gained traction.

I just hope, that when eugenics come back to public light again, they will come out of EU (regulated to hell and back) instead of USA or China. It's one thing to eliminate genetic diseases or such, but completely another thing with steering people into some dystopian genetic hellhole.