• @[email protected]
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    681 year ago

    genetically enhanced human species

    Literal eugenics. Is there really no point at which guys like this look in mirror ad go “are we the baddies?”

    • @[email protected]
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      321 year ago

      I can only guess, but it looks like a circle-jerk in these ultrarich-by-creating-nothing-of-value “tech-bro” spheres. Even the articel suggests

      Bunker life is a well-documented fixation among tech billionaires, particularly those who identify as doomsday preppers. There’s also a fascination with buying large estates in the Pacific and even owning small islands there.

      Once you reach a certain level there is nobody who dares to question you or your believes. It’s all yes-man trying to get a piece of your cake.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        It just sounds like a bunch of basement dwellers lucked out and got rich but nothing else changed.

    • Thalamus
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      I don’t think there’s anything fundamentally wrong with eugenics. Screening for genetic diseases before birth is eugenics, selecting the best embryos for ivf is eugenics. Believing that people with severe genetic disabilities should be counseled before conceiving is eugenics as well.

      The issue is the way it’s done and the reason for it.

    • fiat_lux
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      It will do a pretty good job of it if it’s an island in the central Pacific Ocean, 300km away from its closest neighbouring country.

      It’s like the joke about outrunning a bear, they just need to run faster than the rest of us. There are only 12k people on Nauru to outlast, and a few years of supplies don’t take up very much space either.

    • @buttsbuttsbutts
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      41 year ago

      That’s why they were trying to buy an island.

  • @[email protected]
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    261 year ago

    We’re hitting the point where people who played Bioshock and missed the lesson have money.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      its the same as black mirror: These rich tech bro types see dystopian fiction and say “I want to make that real”

  • stopthatgirl7
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    261 year ago

    …oh, so now rich people are just openly doing comic book supervillain shit. Ok.

  • Tammo-Korsai
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    221 year ago

    to create a fortified apocalypse bunker state,

    It exists and it’s called Switzerland.

  • BlendedRacer
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    61 year ago

    Let me guess, his ‘ubermensch’ plans involve him impregnating young women gag

  • Whiskeyomega
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    Anyone else thinking GOTG V3 ? “There is no god thats why i stepped in”

  • comedy
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    -31 year ago

    Was Caroline Ellison one of the initial batch of experiments? Combining naked molerat and human dna?