Our current p(doom) is 100%. From aging. Act accordingly.

Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯 Broke: we need to stop medicalizing every single flaw and imperfection Woke: IQ below 140 is a disease and we have treatments available

you can laugh but this is how we build housing

I think acceptance of hereditarianism would raise birth rates. You don’t need to put your kids in a million activities, hire private tutors, etc. As long as you don’t aggressively mess them up, they’ll turn out however they’re going to turn out. Just choose a good spouse.

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why can society readily acknowledge that aging and dying is the farthest thing from ~beautiful~ in the case of Alzheimer’s, but not in the similarly-horrifying case of being in your right mind and watching it happen to you and those you love with full awareness

Trans does not go far enough We are not done until every person has a character creator they can change as often as they want Avatarism for reality There are people that’ll be most happy as sentient pieces of talking cake and that is a good thing

the purpose of schools is NOT to “accompany life” or “support child development.” the purpose of schools is to: 1. ensure baseline literacy, numeracy, and bureaucratic fluency—optimising citizens for participation in state and market systems 2. provide subsidised daycare,

Ethics is holding back scientific innovation and progress

How much would 1, 5 or 10 years of additional life expectancy bring to a country? We usually see aging as a net negative. Pensions, healthcare expenses: aging costs a lot. But what if, instead, we looked at the value additional years of life can bring? Extending life expectancy

"Survival of the fittest" is unfair for the people born with genetic disadvantages, no one should be left behind.

When even the concept of "contributing to society" is too hard to imagine.

In the first 48 hours of enforcement, the Online Safety Act has resulted in the censorship of posts: - calling for single-sex spaces - about the life of Richard the Lionheart - showing an arrest at a protest in Leeds - a speech by a Tory MP about grooming gangs

The law false premised on "protecting kids" has now locked down Spotify to adults until you provide your ID and/or photo. The Internet has truly fallen: - Xbox - Discord - X - Youtube - Spotify Topics: - Everything from political speech, opinions on immigration, to an

Things we once accepted as natural — until science said otherwise: ✅ Polio ✅ Tooth decay ✅ Childbirth deaths ✅ Aging? 👀 What else belongs on this list?

The situation in the gene editing field right now is kind of unbelievable. We've spent over a decade throwing billions of dollars at the gene editing for rare diseases and we still can't get the editors inside most of the cell types we need to modify.

What if your baby never walks? What if they are never able to live independently? What if you could have stopped it… but chose not to? That’s the question Orchid’s embryo screening forces. You optimize everything… career, diet, skincare… but you’re going to chance it on

For most of human history life was terrible. We were stuck in the Malthusian Trap so the average person was stuck on the knife edge of starvation at all times, a least half of all children died, adults were stunted pygmies. Cold blooded technological mastery fixed it, not poetry

The opposite of eugenics, generally speaking, is dysgenics. The slow degradation of human abilities and faculties until modern civilization collapses into a new dark age. Positive eugenics is the “nice” option