Paraphrasing Slate Star Codex from memory: I don't want it because then everyone will be pressured to take the most invasive "improvements" they can get, or risk being outcompeted, and then after the whale fall we'll still be miserable, but also with brain bugs.

modify, not "improve", perhaps speciate, perhaps become like insects with physicly different specialised castes, perhaps fail to understand the complecity and end up unable to outperform natural selection, but most definitly the game is on and the game is open ended, and the technology is fairly strait forward ,useing tools that do not require the ulra high precision and refinement of elecro/mechanical technologys, so containment and control of bio/genetic technology will be impossible. the main constraint on unhinged out of control developments is that iterating will remain slow, and require carefull planing and methodical implimentation over generational time spans, but costs will be low, and any sufficiently motivated small group/company/country can join the"fun", which is another point, this will be more "art" that science, as there is no equivalent to other types of engineering, so cloning will be atractive, but will present serious problems if large numbers of cloned indivuals are attempted. I leave out ethics and morality and refer anyone to the blank stare response that will be given by the types of people who are, right now, giving, while they go about realising there ideal society.

Did we invent public education?

Ha, no, just a rant against outdated regulations that are annoying to tech bro billionaire on a mission from God that he met during an acid trip (or was it burning man?)

Not sure if from 1998, or satyre?

While life extension with exercise, supplements, and what have you can just be a wasted effort because these people die anyway with variable lifespans in the normal range like the rest of us, someone needs to maintain a list of sane things we should try just because they make our lives better, so that people don’t waste their lives with bad info, e.g. people eating mostly carbs in a blue zone living longer, which has been proven to be B.S.

For example:

- Walk a lot if possible, or do some sort of low impact sustained activity that involves as much of the body as you can.

- Reduce carbs- higher ketone levels can reduce Alzheimer’s.

- Reduce processed food- MTHFR mutations and too much folic acid enriched flour can cause ADD symptoms.

- Eat salmon/sardines, broccoli, carrots, blueberries, spinach, with squeeze of lemon or lime- get omegas, vitamins, nutrients, healthy carbs.

- Some meds, multi-vitamins, and supplements can screw you up depending on the person- they might be causing or multiplying aggression, flight of ideas, paranoia, etc. and it can take years to undo some damage even partially.

- Supplements may be needed especially as you get older- like calcium and potassium.

- Always keep a watch out for answers- e.g. one day this popped up on HN about a possible cure for Crohn’s disease: https://www.crick.ac.uk/news-and-reports/2024-06-05_major-ca...

- Do your best to get sufficient sleep but just get up if you can’t sleep for a long time rather than stressing about it.

- Brush and floss your teeth.

- Be social, but don’t force it, and reduce dysfunction.

- Go for it, but don’t worry about it.

> Having passed through the “gateway to God” opened by psychedelic drugs, the German tech billionaire wanted to

I closed the article right about there.

Why science fiction? The Nazi plans to clean the race by killing handicapped childs were real, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_hygiene and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4 .

These dreams of improving the race can get nightmares very quickly. Lets not repeat that.