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You Don't Know What a Warcrime Actually Is
Sperm donor who fathered 550 children ordered to stop
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 03/10/2024 10:27:26You Don't Know What a Warcrime Actually Is A war crime is anything defined as a crime by the Geneva Convention. Or, nowadays, anything the State of Israel does to defend itself.
There is no rule against him directly inseminating as many women as they choose. So whether the court's decision is legitimate depends on how his product was marketed.
Has it violated the Geneva Convention?
When genetic engineering is adequately safe, accurate and precise for human reproduction, lineage of individuals won't matter much anymore.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 06/10/2024 11:48:02When genetic engineering is adequately safe, accurate and precise for human reproduction, lineage of individuals won't matter much anymore.The overall genetic robustness of a species depends on randomness. Engineering is about eliminating randomness.
People say altruism is selfish. They?re not wrong
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 15/09/2024 01:41:31People say altruism is selfish. They?re not wrongI have a lot of respect for the Salvation Army. They never ask why you are giving them money, or how you made it. Consequently they do a lot of good with it, and don't waste their time with fautous philosophy and pseudoscience.
I normally avoid these long winded discussions that go nowhere. That said, the idea of interfering with the human geneome to "improve" it would be a recipe for disaster.
A good example is the engine of a F1 car. If it still works after the first race, it was heavier than necessary since its only task was to win one race. If it's too light, it won't survive.
The specified set of limits for homo sapiens involves fresh water. We have now reached the limit of sustainability for most parts of the world, and the supply is, if anything, diminishing.
With enough energy input, we can turn sea water into fresh water.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 11/10/2024 15:12:03With enough energy input, we can turn sea water into fresh water. Yes, it's called rain. The advantage of rain is that it doesn't need transporting from the coast. All you need to do is limit the population to what can be sustained from natural rivers. Why make life difficult when it can be simple?
Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about his new book, ?Nexus,? and its application to current crises. They discuss humanity?s capacity for self-destruction, democracy and dictatorship as information networks, the ?naive view of information,? the advantages of fiction over truth, trust in institutions, self-correction in a democracy, truth vs. power, truth vs. order, the suicide of conservatism, fixing social media, algorithms as editorial choices, efficiency vs. inefficiency, threats to democracy, the authoritarian character of Trump?s candidacy, the need for patriotism and nationalism, Israeli politics, the peaceful transfer of power, Putin and the war in Ukraine, the vulnerability of world order, the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, antisemitism and anti-colonialism, religious fanaticism among Israelis, the status of Arabs in Israeli society, biblical and post-biblical Judaism, whether a wider war in the Middle East is necessary, the danger of spirituality without ethics, and other topics.00:00 Introduction01:12 Nexus05:45 Why Having Too Much Information Can Be Dangerous11:31 Loss of Trust in Institutions17:53 The Importance of Fiction24:43 The Ten Commandments vs. The U.S. Constitution29:28 The Suicide of Conservative Parties31:31 Free Speech on Social Media39:21 Democratic Debate41:41 The 2024 Presidential ElectionOctober 7, 2024
Rain doesn't always come where and when it's needed the most.