SneerClub @awful.systems David Gerard @awful.systems 12mo ago

LW: CRISPR Will Make Me A Genius - "I don’t have a formal background in biology. And though I learn fairly quickly and have great resources like SciHub and GPT4,"

www.lesswrong.com Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible — LessWrong

TL;DR version • In the course of my life, there have been a handful of times I discovered an idea that changed the way I thought about the world. The…

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I’ve now talked to some pretty well-qualified bio PHDs with expertise in stem cells, gene therapy, and genetics. While many of them were skeptical, none of them could point to any part of the proposed treatment process that definitely won’t work.

absolutely classic crank shit
- I talked to some pretty well-qualified math PhDs with expertise in analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, and geometric number theory. While many of them were skeptical, none of them could point to any part of my proposed proof of Fermat's Last Theorem that definitely won't work.
  
  I'm a mathematician and this is exactly what I was imagining lmao
  
  so you're saying I successfully simulated your thoughts, eh???
  
  wow. the ai really is going to get out of the box. if you as a lemmy poster can do this imagine how easy it will be for gpt5
  
  Wow, I mean, look at who you're actually talking to here: I'm acausally reaching back in time to post this.
  
  what rats think their nightmare is: robot god condemns them to hell for eternity
  
  what their actual nightmare is: robot god shitposts on sneerclub
  
  And they're already living it!
  
  ah, the long-awaited activitypub to future simulated hell API integration
  
  isn't that all fediverse software
- I bet all of them pointed out the multifarious ways it could not work, though, and this guy heard "it shouldn't work... but it might".
  
  Frankly, good; he removed himself from the gene pool and we can probably learn something from his remains.
  
  That or we all get Kronenburg'd.
  
  let's be clear: this guy is not going to stop until he's cooked his own brain out of his skull
- Classic appeal to ignorance argument in use here.
- I don't think we would work out..
  
  So you're saying I have a chance?

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