Recent content by Sum1else

1. depending on when and how your genes are modified, it may not transfer, it only will if the gametes are directly affected, which is unlikely to be done because that won't cause any physical changes (unless the intent is to fix/cause sterility). 2. we already are, what chemicals we take in...

The thing I would wish for if I knew what was the best thing for me to wish for x3

Ive heard Perdido Street Station by China Meiville is good. sort of a sci-fi horror thing. I just got it on the recommendation of a friend, but haven't had time to read it yet. As for other stuff, I really liked Godel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter, but it is a...

with a layer of toppings thick and diverse enough to be at least two individual meals in themselves. the actual nature of the toppings is completely irrelevant.

Here is the question, made fully unambiguous, a discussion of what constitutes a satisfactory answer, and then a link to the actual answer (if any of you are incapable of solving it yourself), but the problem really isn't that hard when you think about it properly...

when it comes down to it, most of the time evil is just another word for 'having more power than intelligence/common sense' so no, no one is born with either, and you have to earn each.

Of course i fear death... I want to live forever... so does everyone who isn't in horrible pain, because you want to live another 24 hours, right? and after that you will still want to live another 24 hours? just take that pattern out to infinity... and so death would take away infinity...

As for how evidence supports hypotheses... here's a mathematical explanation using probability theory: http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes Basic overview of Baysian reasoning.

Another Eagle Scout... so yeah, basically the whole 'general survival skills' package, plus once I finish college I'm going to be a physicist as well, so if we get to the point where we're trying to rebuild our tech i should be reasonably useful there too. Also, I'm the kind of person who will...

I find this particularly weird... I fit a lot of these things which show 'school shooting potential' when I was in high school, but yet I'm a pacifist and a Buddhist and wouldn't hurt anyone, but someone i know fit none of them and seriously threatened one of my friends with a knife once... i...