Cognitive Thrift 69 – German Blood
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Cognitive Thrift
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/05/08
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Some people might feel confused because you were talking about the creepiness of eugenics, genetic manipulation for some deal. We can bar crazy ideas like the purity of German blood and all of those nasty things, but that technological adaptation and reconfiguring of people is in a way a silicon eugenics.
How do you bring those two together and reconcile the rejection of the eugenic view and accept the technological adaptationist view?
Rick Rosner: You can call it eugenics, but that just makes it kind of creepy. It is a going beyond or a no longer being subject to evolutionary genetics and using genetics and other tools to willfully engineer yourself or other entities instead of playing the genetic lottery.
And a general theme of science fiction of turning into reality is science fiction predicts all sorts of weird things, and you can even leave science fiction out of it.
Advances, science fictioney advances how up first often in weird or creepy ways or used by weird or creepy people and then it’s only later when they get adapted by just about everybody.
There was a time when people had car phones and most people thought that the first people with car phones were dicks. And most people thought the first people with cell phones were dicks walking around with cell phones talking in public.
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