More likely to serve the CCP, next step is cloned humans for organ harvest.
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
From Gattaca's entry.Political references
U.S. Senator Rand Paul used near-verbatim portions of the plot summary from the English Wikipedia entry on Gattaca in a speech at Liberty University on October 28, 2013 in support of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's campaign for Governor of Virginia. Paul accused pro-choice politicians of advocating eugenics in a manner similar to the events in Gattaca.[34][35]
i saw that movie. one of ewan macgregor’s worst.Dilbert_X wrote:
More likely to serve the CCP, next step is cloned humans for organ harvest.
That 3 day work week is a whole lot closer if you don't need to organise social security payments to a third of the population.uziq wrote:
‘let’s defeat ageing! we can do away with retirement and be able bodied until we are 100!’. errr i’d rather talk about a 3 day work week, lowering inequality, and expanding categories of human leisure if that’s alright with you. i don’t want to live forever especially if it means enabling more fucking ‘productivity’. the earth as a biosphere needs a whole lot less ‘productivity’.
It's amazing how you manage to wiggle this 'philosophy' into everything. Birth rates decline as welfare increases.Dilbert_X wrote:
What the earth really needs is fewer people, that would solve all the problems.
this is really spurious logic. the idea that de-ageing technology is going to make us 'lifelong productive' is retarded.Larssen wrote:
That 3 day work week is a whole lot closer if you don't need to organise social security payments to a third of the population.uziq wrote:
‘let’s defeat ageing! we can do away with retirement and be able bodied until we are 100!’. errr i’d rather talk about a 3 day work week, lowering inequality, and expanding categories of human leisure if that’s alright with you. i don’t want to live forever especially if it means enabling more fucking ‘productivity’. the earth as a biosphere needs a whole lot less ‘productivity’.
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I really wonder if that would be true. Ultimately it would entail solving problems before they occur, rendering many ad-hoc medical treatments unnecessary. If we refocus our attention to preventative therapies I'm sure accessibility can be guaranteed for everyone in a functional welfare state, if only thanks to the cost saved.uziq wrote:
and, let's be real, like with all cutting-edge tech and medical breakthroughs, this stuff is highly stratified in how its distributed in society. what will more likely happen is that a class of elite rich folk get access to 'extend' their lifespans whilst the rest of the people have nothing to look forward to except more endless drudgery in service of letting these self-elected eloi live forever. hard pass for me, i'm afraid. i'd rather talk about reforming systems of work here and now in the present, so that we can get more out of life in the already-long 75 or 100 years expected.
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which is precisely why i said we should look to address the pre-emptive causes of alzheimer's and dementia, or other neurodegenerative diseases.I really wonder if that would be true. Ultimately it would entail solving problems before they occur, rendering many ad-hoc medical treatments unnecessary. If we refocus our attention to preventative therapies I'm sure accessibility can be guaranteed for everyone in a functional welfare state, if only thanks to the cost saved.
Not fast enough.Larssen wrote:
It's amazing how you manage to wiggle this 'philosophy' into everything. Birth rates decline as welfare increases.Dilbert_X wrote:
What the earth really needs is fewer people, that would solve all the problems.
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OK whats your solutionunnamednewbie13 wrote:
Very Hunger Games. Lots of big talk of survival of the fittest or whatever on the internet. I guess you'd be first in line for participation in the deathmatches. Mad Max is like one of the worst possible outcomes apart from outright extinction but there's still people fantasizing about all that along with zombies. I don't get it.
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I'm more interested in your bizarre solution to adopt Chinese policy and then manage the male chaff with literal dystopian cage fights. I can't even tell if you're being serious. I would think as an engineer that you would at least come up with something like making human batteries efficient so we can have a functioning Matrix.Dilbert_X wrote:
OK whats your solutionunnamednewbie13 wrote:
Very Hunger Games. Lots of big talk of survival of the fittest or whatever on the internet. I guess you'd be first in line for participation in the deathmatches. Mad Max is like one of the worst possible outcomes apart from outright extinction but there's still people fantasizing about all that along with zombies. I don't get it.
Uziq's is do nothing and wait for science nerds to offset all his coal burning with a technological solution