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I'd say that the majroity of people aren't qualified to have children and shouldn't procreate in this time we are living in.
Yeah, same with my friend. I get the sentiment, but I can't deny women's right to be mothers.
It's literally what happened in the US.
I didn't think eugenics was racist. This is why I argued wit you. It's also why I gave the example in Germany.
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The eugenics movement was not exclusive to the US, you are correct. I bring up my own country's crimes in this regard because, like most of our other failings, we refuse to talk about it. Somebody has to say something and the victims were frequently people who already had their voice taken away.I didn't think eugenics was racist. This is why I argued wit you. It's also why I gave the example in Germany.
Sweden was also a big proponent :
.Compulsory sterilisation in Sweden - Wikipedia
Ok, ok. I tried to bring this forward - eugenics isn't inherently racist. Thinking people with genetic defects don't deserve to live isn't racism, it's a different brand of awful.
Believing that undesirable traits are endemic to certain ethnicities is very much racist. It is possible to be sexist, racist, albeist and other forms of bigotry simultaneously. In fact, bigots are rarely bigoted toward only one group. Once the irrationality of bigotry infects your thinking, it will spread to the rest of your thoughts. Jean-Paul Sartre described this in his observations about anti-Semites.
Well...in theory it's not inherently racist, but given the way it's been promoted in the last 100 years say, it's very intertwined with racism in practice.
From what I remember of that Rogan interview Musk considers human cognitive processing too slow to keep up with the inevatible A.I. uprising so neuralink is there to more or less level the playing field. The guy is anything if not ambitious. The possible therapeutic applications of neuralink could be life changing for many people.
It won't be fast enough to keep up with the inevitable AI rising even if we do stick a few microchips in people's brains. The AI is going to have (or take control of) a massive supercomputer, it'll have some smarter-than-normal ants to squash.
Ambitious, but not as smart as he thinks he is. I'm not even a tech guy and I can see a bunch of problems with this that he'll probably ignore.
True, but with neuralink he's trying though. That is the most important part. You never know what comes out of it.
To try is one thing. What concerns me is Musk doesn't seem aware of the law of unintended consequences. We all agree that the internet has enabled some great things. The ways the unscrupulous have chosen to use it... not so much.
What I can guarantee is that there's always going to be at least one prick who will use it to make other people's lives a misery.
