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etienne thillaye
will the Bio-power enter the White House ?
I mean, you know nobody believes it. So there will be a kind of BIG
momentum. What shall we do, just laugh ?
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Daniel C.
<etienne....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ever been in love ? Is that genetics ? How to rule emotions ? When
> will the Bio-power enter the White House ?
> I mean, you know nobody believes it. So there will be a kind of BIG
> momentum. What shall we do, just laugh ?
etienne thillaye
France, which will be the same kind as the nuclear weapon in 1944
(which would explode, or not), translating into reality Kant's
predictions about universal history, shall I... Well...sorry boring
subject...
On 18 avr, 18:27, "Daniel C." <dcrooks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:55 AM, etienne thillaye
>
Cathal Garvey
..are you asking "What do we think of synthetic biology superweapons, whether invented to kill, control or terrorise?"
If so, it's my opinion that biowarfare is unlikely to present a serious option in the near future fir any end of a conflict.
Recall first that biowarfare is an ancient concept and tactic. It has never been popular because of the risk of backlash. Nowadays it's even less likely to be popular.
If you're a powerful country, you can afford a decent bioweapon but your people will need treatment or vaccination before you use it: nukes are cheaper.
If you're a smaller player, your people will get sicker and die more if you employ a bioweapon. Your larger foe can afford to develop and administer treatment.
Can a bioweapon be precisely tailored to kill only certain ethnicities? Not without harrowing difficulty, and not effectively.
Because all races are ultimately the same barring biologically trivial idiosyncracies, you'd need to use genetic logic to detect those differences.
To preserve this state of exceptional, disadvantageous specificity, you'd have to make the agent very genetically stable. Which leaves it absolutely vulnerable to immune defence or vaccination. If you don't, it'll revert to a more general specificity and you'll catch your own racist plague.
My short answer: the self replicating power of synthetic biology makes it exceptionally powerful as an industrial, remedial or novel technology. But as a weapon, it's not practical.
On Apr 19, 2010 7:16 a.m., "etienne thillaye" <etienne....@gmail.com> wrote:
Just, since I see that nobody talks about those revolutions yet in
France, which will be the same kind as the nuclear weapon in 1944
(which would explode, or not), translating into reality Kant's
predictions about universal history, shall I... Well...sorry boring
subject...
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Tom Randall
gibberish.
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Mackenzie Cowell
Cathal Garvey
Besides, chimps are awesome.
On Apr 20, 2010 3:03 a.m., "Mackenzie Cowell" <m...@diybio.org> wrote:
Please don't feed the trolls.
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Tom Randall <tara...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is a chimpanzee writ...
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etienne thillaye
the question is not "will we all die". We won't (by the way I'm
confident there is absolutely no risks at all...). Kant said, once you
have only two opponents, wars will stop. And well that's a fact, since
1945, with the cold war, not major peace breaking. Some other say it's
because of nuclear weapon : too dangerous to be shot. I would say :
nuclear weapon is the opponent. So, absurd thinkink drives me to the
conclusion : what's the point about biotechnology ? You guys are
creating the opponent. Why ? What do you fear ? What will stop then
automatically ? Strange...kind of reconciliation between Hegel and
Comte...Idealism in History and Religion of Science...France and
Germany...1945...Who is the so-called opponent ? Ben Laden ? For sure
Biotechnologies are the most "god-like" type of science...
On 20 avr, 09:39, Cathal Garvey <cathalgar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Besides, chimps are awesome.
>
> On Apr 20, 2010 3:03 a.m., "Mackenzie Cowell" <m...@diybio.org> wrote:
>
> Please don't feed the trolls.
>
Cathal Garvey
I don't think anyone's advocating new superweapons from biotech. In fact, I think that'd be strategically and sensibly dense in the extreme.
So, nukes stay dominant. Two opponents et cetera.
On Apr 20, 2010 9:59 a.m., "etienne thillaye" <etienne....@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry, you misunderstood me. Both of us are already dead as we say, so
the question is not "will we all die". We won't (by the way I'm
confident there is absolutely no risks at all...). Kant said, once you
have only two opponents, wars will stop. And well that's a fact, since
1945, with the cold war, not major peace breaking. Some other say it's
because of nuclear weapon : too dangerous to be shot. I would say :
nuclear weapon is the opponent. So, absurd thinkink drives me to the
conclusion : what's the point about biotechnology ? You guys are
creating the opponent. Why ? What do you fear ? What will stop then
automatically ? Strange...kind of reconciliation between Hegel and
Comte...Idealism in History and Religion of Science...France and
Germany...1945...Who is the so-called opponent ? Ben Laden ? For sure
Biotechnologies are the most "god-like" type of science...
On 20 avr, 09:39, Cathal Garvey <cathalgar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Besides, chimps are awesome. >
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etienne thillaye
life we'll be able to re-create it...maybe Oppenheimer was the
antechrist...and I'm surprised, for now thirty years nobody believes
in anything...I think nobody really cares about destroying the whole
earth...if you redefine the rules...then you'll know who is the
opponent...
On 20 avr, 12:07, Cathal Garvey <cathalgar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think anyone's advocating new superweapons from biotech. In fact, I
> think that'd be strategically and sensibly dense in the extreme.
>
> So, nukes stay dominant. Two opponents et cetera.
>
Cathal Garvey
I think there have been several antichrists by now. The entry requirements have really gone downhill.
On Apr 20, 2010 2:21 p.m., "etienne thillaye" <etienne....@gmail.com> wrote:
Well I'd say something more like instead of being able to destroy all
life we'll be able to re-create it...maybe Oppenheimer was the
antechrist...and I'm surprised, for now thirty years nobody believes
in anything...I think nobody really cares about destroying the whole
earth...if you redefine the rules...then you'll know who is the
opponent...
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> On Apr 20, 2010 9:59 a.m., "etienne thillaye" <etienne.thill...@gmail.com>
> wrote: > > Sorry, you misunderstood me. Both of us are already dead as we say, so > the question i...
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Bryan Bishop
From: Ralph <fig...@boone.net>
Date: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:40 AM
Subject: [wta-talk] Next Set of X-Prizes to Include AI and Human
Enhancement Priorities
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I haven't seen anyone discuss this yet...
http://www.ecofriendlymag.com/sustainable-transporation-and-alternative-fuel/x-prize-foundation-aims-to-launch-100m-in-prizes-over-next-10-years-targeting-4-key-areas/
...but the X-Prize Foundation intends to launch US $100 million in
X-Prizes over the next decade, targeting 4 key areas. Of those four,
their life-science priorities include:
quote/
* *Neurobiology*: brain-computer interface, imaging, learning,
memory, consciousness, decision making.
* *Human 2.0 Devices*: bionics (assistive and additive), artificial
skin/limb/joints/sensory substitutes (e.g. prosthetic eye, haptics).
* *Personalized Medicine*: risk assessment, disease prevention,
early detection, therapy, response monitoring, Tx/Rx development.
* *Healthcare Advancement*: cost of care/reimbursement, quality of
care, compliance, disease surveillance, electronic medical records.
* *Physician Augmentation/Telemedicine*: artificial intelligence
physician, disease prevention, patient diagnosis, acute care
management, disease management.
/quote
So, gear up, would be Transhumans and other
radical-augmentation/AI/consciousness-uploading researchers. There's a
grant/X-Prize to be won!
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