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RE: Using Technology to Counter Existential Threats
Well, why do you think we're doomed?
And also I don't think we need to have a backup for everybody on this planet - it's overpopulated, and such a data brings not much good for humans as a species.
@zaebars
As a species we're probably not doomed. But someone will take the same technology we're using right now to fix genetic ailments and they will use it to cause new ailments.
Perhaps we are overpopulated, I would disagree with that. I think our density in certain areas is too high to be sustainable, but you could very easily take every human on earth right now and give them over 1,000 acres of land and there would be plenty left over.
But let's assume the malthusians are right.
Who gets to choose who lives and who dies? You? Me?
It's more than life or death though.
Data about your genome is just health information. If someone actively does damage or you accidentally do damage, how would it not be a good thing to restore your genome from a known good copy?
Who dies decide nature, not the individuals and that's okay, because every population of biological life has it's ups and downs - thats what i meant.
To restore from a copy isn't that necessary. Like if you recreate mammoth now (there is such a possibility), would it be any better to ecosystem as a whole?
@zaebars
Last I checked we are nature. Nature has decided so long as we have decided.
If I make an active choice to copy my genetic information in order that one day this genetic information will continue on again. Then it doesn't matter what form I store that in, whether it is by having children, by freezing my zygotic cells, preserving my stem cells, or taking the ultimate selfie.
Either way if it works, it will mean that I decided to make it work and because I am as much a part of nature as anything else in the physical universe, it will mean that nature has decided that this is as well.
On a side note, don't anthropomorphize nature, she hates it when you do that. :D
Probably:)
But still, every year humanity consume so much resources, that we are living in debt - so if the growth of population will continue with this speed, future us (in any form) will be not so happy, even if you "take every human on earth right now and give them over 1,000 acres of land " it doesn't help - resources like food and clean water are already quite limited.
@zaebars
The line about "perhaps we are doomed", was just showing that the current generation has learned to take technology for granted so much that they have lost the ability to question it. We're not doing a great job of educating our kids if they represent any sort of baseline.
Also it's just fun, every generation thinks the next generation is going to muck things up. It's a hobby our species has had since before we first came down out of the trees.
Every next generation is different - because it's evolving.
Yes, their perception has changed - but it opens more routs to go forward, looking back somethimes but not too much.
We're using a front-row technology here, on Steemit, not even fully realizing how it's going to apply to future reality - and it's okay if we're going to forget something on the way - new is coming.
@zaebars
I know but the videos are still fun to watch. Eye opening really.