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- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 1 day ago:
oh I misunderstood. I thought “five figure income should be 0” meant “people shouldn’t be able to make even five figures.”
- Comment on Iron 1 day ago:
So I think we agree?
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 1 day ago:
Five figure income should be zero? $10,000/year is not a livable income.
- Comment on Iron 1 day ago:
Okay, well, to be clear, my position is: let’s do medical advancement and let’s replace current IP law. Whether or not billionaires get a profit doesn’t enter my calculus. I care only about improving the life of the lower class; redistributing the wealth of billionaires would definitely be good for that goal, but if there is something that benefits both the lower class and billionaires I will not reject it on the principle of not helping billionaires.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 2 days ago:
I didn’t mean to ask how one can view the comments. I meant to ask how it’s possible at all in the first place.
- Comment on Iron 2 days ago:
I didn’t say that at all. I never said those were mutually exclusive. You are the one who came along and asserted that medical advancements could only be made under current IP law.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 days ago:
How is it possible to view deleted comments?
- Comment on Iron 3 days ago:
We should already change our laws on ownership. I’m not sure how it’s possible that I’m saying “we should improve healthcare and also change IP laws” and you’re hearing me say “IP laws are good the way they are.” The U.S. is past the threshold already.
- Comment on Iron 3 days ago:
Well, the current situation in the U.S. is pretty bad. But I’m happier that at least some people are able to get, say, insulin for their diabetes, than that nobody can. I would of course greatly prefer free or at least cheap access to insulin for all, but I would not press a magic button to remove insulin entirely in order to screw over big pharma. I know someone with diabetes – how could I say their life is not worth the cost to society that comes capitalists exploiting a monopoly on insulin?
Similarly, in the future, I hope to be able to say that in expectation somebody I know would have had down syndrome had it not been prevented by (the non-evil kind of) eugenics programs such as polygenics.
- Comment on Iron 3 days ago:
Well, I do agree we should completely rework IP law in general. But I wouldn’t want to delay progress in genetic engineering until we can restructure society. It’s important to improve the human condition, even if society isn’t able to allow equitable access to every technology yet.
- Comment on Iron 3 days ago:
I don’t really get how you’re getting all that from polygenic selection – the current state of the art in legal eugenics. Polygenic selection is just like, choosing the best of n embryos; any one of these babies you could have conceived naturally, it just boosts the odds a little. Anyway, it doesn’t affect oneself, only one’s children, so nobody actually gets a choice, and nobody’s identity can be given up. What you’re saying doesn’t even make a lick of sense.
- Comment on Iron 3 days ago:
advanced genetic engineering would be cool but that’s not polygenic selection.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 3 days ago:
maybe you can’t. Try harder.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 3 days ago:
speak for yourself
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 3 days ago:
your username checks out.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 4 days ago:
yeah those are all permitted. It’s very inconsistent.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 4 days ago:
Ah, I see. Still, I’d remove it from the list; it doesn’t really strike me as the same kind of thing at all. Kinda ridiculous to put it on the same level as like, actual slurs.
- Comment on Iron 4 days ago:
are you this skeptical every time a new treatment for something comes out?
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 4 days ago:
not sure how to test this without just publicly posting a big list of slurs lol. Anyway, it’s just odd to me since I don’t consider bitсһ a slur. It’s on the exact same level of rudeness as bastard.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 4 days ago:
you forgot to italicize.
- Comment on Iron 4 days ago:
Yes, I agree it should definitely be accessible to everyone. Just like any other kind of healthcare is already in my country. As for the cost, one could redirect funds from healthcare toward it. It should save money on healthcare in the long-run.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 4 days ago:
Never really thought of it as a slur. Like a general-purpose slur against women? I don’t really agree, it’s in common parlance, at least in my area. I’ve never found it offensive, personally. Generally when people I know use it, it’s meant in a positive, I guess you could say “reclaimed” fashion. Plus, there are much worse slurs that are not censored.
- Comment on Iron 4 days ago:
I’m canadian. I have heard that san fran is Canada’s 4th biggest city by population or something like that, but no, I don’t live there.
Something I wonder is why people treat gattaca like it’s exactly and completely prescient, but at the same time have no worry at all about AI x-risks because “terminator was science fiction, so there’s nothing to worry about.”
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 4 days ago:
I meant on my instance in general, not in the image. On lemmy.ml for some reason, if you type “bitсһ” then it gets automatically-replaced with the text “removed.”
- Comment on Iron 4 days ago:
Gattaca is one of my favourite movies. Is there another thing you’re talking about?
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 4 days ago:
Can we please either un-censor the word “bitсһ” or else add other similar minorly-offensive swear words like fuck, shit, bastard, etc. to the censor list? I don’t mind so much the censorship, it’s just the inconsistency that bothers me.
- Comment on Iron 4 days ago:
I’m not generally one to advocate for free-market capitalism, but in this case, I think you would need to explain to me why genetic engineering would be withheld from people given that free access would be more profitable.
- Comment on Iron 4 days ago:
I don’t really see why billionaires change the calculus. So what if they get slightly genetically superior children? They already have everything.
- Comment on Iron 4 days ago:
Imagine somebody saying this about any other form of healthcare:
“Yeah, you get the older, less advanced cancer-fighting drugs, while the rich maintain their lock on chemotherapy. The new marker will be a combination of lifespan and generation of hospital bed. This is also considering that it will be a broad application of the tech that is available to the lower classes, not just things that only help cure diseases in soldiers and laborers.”
Yeah! Legitimate points! I could see some forward-thinking philosopher objecting to the notion of health-care with ideas like this 100 years ago. And yet, I’m so glad we live in a world with healthcare so I am much more likely to live a long and healthy life, and I still have a chance at finding the right treatment for chronic pain. 100 years from now, we’ll all be grateful that we have genetically-boosted lifespans and intelligence and we don’t suffer from genetic diseases just because somebody objected, “but what if this helped the rich more than the poor?.”
- Comment on Play dead 4 days ago:
I guess he chose the night in the woods with the bear.