General Genetics Discussion - China and Trump Edition

Facial recognition and sentiment analysis aren't going to be so great. You mgiht be able to tell if someone is happy or sad but they might be faking it too. Humans that put on a face a lot will be less readable.


I don't think that most humans today have a more recent common ancestor than over 50k years ago with most other humans on the planet. Social conditioning is only part of the puzzle to biological selection for a group similar enough to your own.


I do mundane things in my career for now; I prefer to stay anonymous.

Sentiment analysis referred to text. We're getting much better at analyzing it.

Also voice. Speech to text has come a long way.

In a way. You would need a very broken government to try to force people to change their bodies after the fact.

These kits mainly offer you the ability to manipulate simple bacteria cells - a good starting point for beginners. To manipulate mammalian cells requires a more advanced skill set and equipment, not to mention whole organisms. These kits are also already optimised, so the user simply has to follow the instructions. Doing new things however will require way more, but iirc with ~5 to 10 thousand dollars you can have your own full functioning laboratory in your home.

We Gattaca now

Those are exciting. Maybe next time they will be able to predict whoever is the next generation of MAGA presidents.

This is fascinating.

As someone who is obviously a noob to this stuff, I can only imagine these machines by themselves are nothing magical inside; maybe the 3D printing revolution will help hardware/software guys to make better/cheaper equipment a reality. I hope to be on that front so I'd like to ask, do you think there's room for improving the price of these machines? In 3D-printing, the RepRap made printers go down in price like tenfold.

Thanks, but I just comment on what I see. I'm hoping to do a lot of good in immunology but a lot of things can be exploited for good or bad.

But it will be used like that. Or at least, people will try, once we know more about cranial development and how "intelligence" actually comes about. People are more interested in having scientists make them smart rather than raising their existing kids to be smart. It probably won't be used just on one race though, unless SJWs get seriously involved in funding and regulation and we have a long way to go before we're deciding who is allowed to be made artificially more intelligent.
(funny to see the cognitive dissonance though: if you say white males aren't allowed to be made smarter, does that mean they are already smarter than you?)

What do you think about the advancement of technology to help handicapped people? Will we soon develop technologies like contacts for the blind and implants for the deaf that surpass normal human abilities? Will normal healthy people be allowed to start using aides like this and we'll slowly become more fused with AI? I kind of foresee this as we get better and cheaper technology, that we will become very dependent on widespread enhancements. Think I saw a Ted talk on it. Wouldn't be for years but it's an interesting future.

SJWs don't want any genetic research whatsoever because it would implode their narrative.

Whites gave the non-white races of the world far too much in return for spite, hatred, and murder. When we engineer ourselves a way to become Supermen, we will not take them with us. They have wasted far too many of our gifts and will pay the price of ceasing to exist for it.

I am not interested in perpetuating the mixed race problem and even less interested in even the thought of allowing non-whites to exist once we pass this technological threshold.