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    Superhumans Coming per Stephen Hawking - Might Destroy the Non-Useful People

    Wealthy people will edit their DNA
    whether or not they decide to kill everybody else is not really clear. maybe they will. maybe they won't. I guess it depends on how they feel.
    https://www.theguardian.com/science/...-essays-reveal
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    I mean, we already did this the natural way.

    Watch any NBA or NFL game for reference.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fats View Post
    Wealthy people will edit their DNA
    whether or not they decide to kill everybody else is not really clear. maybe they will. maybe they won't. I guess it depends on how they feel.
    https://www.theguardian.com/science/...-essays-reveal
    So Nazi's revisited. That is a really weak prophecy. Editing DNA is an unknown. Could it mean the end of certain physical afflictions. Possibly. Is intelligence linked to that?
    No matter who you are you start taking people out and you are the new target.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gut View Post
    I mean, we already did this the natural way.

    Watch any NBA or NFL game for reference.
    Side-effect: IQs of 80.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gut View Post
    I mean, we already did this the natural way.

    Watch any NBA or NFL game for reference.


    yes, but a super brain is much more powerful than a super body.
    Last edited by Fats; 10-15-2018 at 03:28 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by limitles View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Fats View Post
    Wealthy people will edit their DNA
    whether or not they decide to kill everybody else is not really clear. maybe they will. maybe they won't. I guess it depends on how they feel.
    https://www.theguardian.com/science/...-essays-reveal

    No matter who you are you start taking people out and you are the new target.
    that part of my post was meant to be facetious although the article says that Hawking stated that.

    I think the real danger is that it could exacerbate class differences which are already extreme if it ever happens.

    there will be the super people who will control an even larger % of the wealth and then there will be everybody else - struggling and scraping by

    and more bitterness - and more violence

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fats View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by limitles View Post


    No matter who you are you start taking people out and you are the new target.
    that part of my post was meant to be facetious although the article says that Hawking stated that.

    I think the real danger is that it could exacerbate class differences which are already extreme if it ever happens.

    there will be the super people who will control an even larger % of the wealth and then there will be everybody else - struggling and scraping by

    and more bitterness - and more violence
    There will always be a percentage of people who try to be better, or do what they can to obtain advantage.
    That's pretty much a given.
    To this point even the worst of that type realize others are necessary to do their bidding.
    If you go beyond this point, where the DNA elite decide to remove the DNA inferior it becomes a game of Survivor, where anything goes. That's where the DNA elite are no longer good for the game and they put themselves on the chopping block.
    Crazy talk I know


    Last edited by limitles; 10-15-2018 at 09:26 PM.

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