How To Make A Human Offshoot Who Won't Wipe Out Humanity

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

12 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

The worldwide corporative practices tell: no! Do not even hire them.

Heh, my Russian friend... You know the words but aren't listening to the tune!

Profits, profits, profits. 

Remember, Corporation is not Co-op.  

 

36 minutes ago, Scotius said:

It would make sense in one situation: If for whatever reason we would have to colonize a world not habitable for baseline humans. Maybe too heavy. Maybe contaminated by something nasty. Maybe with a deadly local pathogen. Offshoot of Homo genetically able to no-sell such threat thanks to genetic manipulation could be a reasonable solution.

That only creates a parallel species.  If we each can only live where the other cannot - there is no real competition.  Or reasons for collaboration. 

Go back to first principles (or Blade Runner). 

Unless we create a descendant capable of and worthy of replacing us (aka a "child") all the genetic manipulationl will be for the creation of slaves. 

The literature and our history should be caution enough against this. 

[kerbiloid]

Nature made humans, AI and DNA engineering will make them equal.

Literally equal. So perfect that interchangeable.

So interchangeable that no more personal attractiveness, love, or friendship will be possible.

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

Borg

[kerbiloid]

Borg is fantasy.

A commune of clones of several genetic rows with identical personalities arranged around the AI matrix rules.

And the biocontrol of organism  is unavoidable.

Including permanent measuring and management of hormones.

On the bright side - they will need no strange things forbidden for view of minors, but will get happy simultaneously together at once sitting around the table and looking at the Moon.
(Thanks the manageable activation of biological states usually  associated with the mentioned strange things.)

 

[magnemoe]

5 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Borg is fantasy.

A commune of clones of several genetic rows with identical personalities arranged around the AI matrix rules.

And the biocontrol of organism  is unavoidable.

Including permanent measuring and management of hormones.

Agree, it make no sense and don't get me started on hive minds, how is that even supposed to work biological, you could perhaps get it to work, you might get it to work with technology but they would be very vulnerable to jamming or hacking.  Anybody making mobile units put as much of an brain into the unit as practical. 

Bees and other social insects don't have an hive mind as in the queen is not the brain or even an dictator, she don't decide much. And it does not scale up well, yes you have the naked mole rat but try being the only mother for an medium sized country of human sized creatures  Plausible for an alien species but they will stay tribal.  

[kerbiloid]

On the amazon occupation topic

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