/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11822235
You would all just say "it's saving lives!"
When in reality, it is a steep and slippery slope that would descend into madness and greed.

>>11796387
Because the government of a functioning society would allow a brainwashing technology to seep into the culture of their tax payers.

Here's a horrifying fact to ruin your fantasy:

Anyone who dwells into sci-fi VR are going to look less of a man
>filthy with piss and shit on his pants
>emaciated and dehydrated to the bones
>bones cracking with bed sores from the intentional coma
>destruction of cognitive abilities due to the lack of sunlight, complete absence of exercise, and of course, the inability to reach REM stage of sleep

Sorry, reality does not care about your safe zone.

Do you want to learn some stuff about neurology? We can teach you

Let me try
Overwhelming majority of research papers were found to be complete rubbish because researchers are being pressured to produce results, resulting into a flood of crap and the good ones get drowned out.

Studying is good, teaching it to others is better. No better way to learn than teaching it to a kid and acting superior and using complex formulas or words is just being pretentious.

There are more than 1 type of intelligence and online IQ tests are just as relevant and accurate as any online exams

AIs are just as dangerous as the industrial revolution and the cyberworld. Trades during medieval era was a few hundred, today it's in the hundred thousands. Artificial Intelligence shall produce more jobs and pave way for space exploration.

The jobs that AIs would kill are the jobs you would be grateful to be killed for they are degrading, dehumanizing, abusive, and dangerous such as garbage collection, retail, fire fighting, soldiers, and so on.

Despite what scifi tells you, Machine implants and genetic engineering would always be inferior to what nature designed - in terms of survivability. Every animal and plant that mankind remodeled have become more powerful than their wild counterparts at the cost of their ability to survive in the wild.

Eugenics program shall result into a massive moral dilemma as it would legalize and moralize the idea of genociding bad genes

Fetus is a human and Abortion is murder.
Almost all abortion doctors are suffering from ptsd with many retiring to become activists against it. Dehumanizing your enemies is convenient but you are dehumanizing children.

>>11754578
>earning the genes that code for higher intelligence, preventing heritable diseases, or making humans generally stronger are all real possibilities that will eventually be solved I think.

You have no idea what kind of slippery slippery slipper slope you are talking about there boy.
My word of design does not limit itself to the physical structure alone but also the mentality and community

Eugenics would absolutely improve our body as a whole but you are severely misinformed if that would have no draw backs
First and foremost:
How do we decide which gene is useful? Every gene is unique and has its certain advantages and disadvantages.

Second: where do we draw the line?
Would it be considered child abuse for a parent to engineer the genes of their children to have the traits that "they" like?

Third: what happens to the people with bad genes?
Are they going to be castrated?

Fourth: who gets to decide all of this?
The government who are known for eliminating inconvenient people?

Always remember that the designs of nature extends beyond just the physical structure. Modifying the human genome and playing god is going to cause major problems in our society as a whole. In just one night, genocide would be both legalized and moralized

Standardization and specification is bound to always to lead to boon....for someone else
Just look at every single animal and plant that we domesticated.
They are amazing aren't they? They are all producing so much more products that their wild counterparts.
And it just costed them their ability to survive in the wild and reproduce by themselves! Amazing how we improved nature!

>>11733612
Jesus was a brown, you fail the fact
Rome, Spain, Egypt are not white
Odds are stacked
that history was blacked.
Or brown
but whats the difference?
They be niggers on a fence

>>11448382
Yes, that is correct.
There is always room for 2 or more predators because use your common sense, fuckwit.
Earth has many different predators suited for every different climate and environment. Not to mention that mesopredators are capable of coexisting with apex predators because they have a different diet that the top ones are not adapted for.
Territorial animals are bound to respect each other's territories beause, even if they win, they are bound to get hurt. And when it comes to intelligent creatures, there is a chance that they would take revenge.

And running out of resources in the universe?
Go shut the fuck up idiot.
The universe is vast. VAST
There is not a single resource in a planet that you cannot find in wild abundance in any other planetary system
Water is the most abundant because of it's literally nothing else but Hydrogen and Oxygen that are everywhere in any gas formation
Even metals are everywhere. A single chunk of meteor would have more metals than all the metals we have mined in our history

So, yeah, shut the fuck up

The only resource we have that is unique is Chlorophyll and Protein. That's it. And that is not unique at all. Aliens can easily create their own through the use of simple agriculture.

We need to get out because resources are limited on our planet but it sure isn't going to "just" run out.

We stopped doing wars because we found out that trading resources is actually so much easier than genociding other races and trying to get our limited manpower to toil lands that they are not accustomed to. Same thing would happen to other civilizations

A culture of genocidal warmongering retards is guaranteed to have high crime rate and corruption that would keep them from leaving their homeplanet in the first place

Read more books, retard

>>11444625
I am reading The Demon in the Freezer right now where it discussed in full detail how the modern world would be absolutely helpless should Smallpox return.
No city on Earth can ever be ready to handle that. Heck, not even human civilization itself right now may survive if that were unleashed.

It won't be reconstructed, it's completely available on locked freezers in sciencelabs
It used to have an infection rate of 10. Meaning that one person would spread it to 10 people. By tomorrow, those 10 would spread it to 10 more per patient - 100 in just 2 days. 1000 in 3 days, 10,000 in 4 and so on.
And that was when the human population and density was hardly comparable to ours right now.
Today, that infection rate can be as high as 15-20.

It is possible to have modern medicine that can slow down and reduce smallpox's lethality but guess what? It is also possible to force the pathogen to become resistant to drugs via process known as "heating up".
It's a simple process wherein a batch of viruses shall be farmed, then doused in drugs. The survivors shall be cultivated then doused in drugs again. After just 1 year of doing this, you shall have a strain with a massive drug resistance. The process is both inexpensive and effortless just time-consuming.

Corona virus has less lethality than the Spanish Flu but smallpox....oh smallpox. Smallpox is the one and only disease on Earth that was so scary enough that people made deities in its name.

We are lucky that WHO succeeded in eliminating it from the wild. Let's pray it never escape the vaults.