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Comment Re:Corporate death penalty? (Score 1) 88

That's the point; if you cannot treat them as people then you cannot define them as people and you need to hold accountable the chain of command responsible for the decisions that were made, so that higher level personnel cannot simply insulate themselves from such bad decisions. If you can treat them as people, then do with their property what the government does with the property of inmates. Though I look forward to someone telling me how a corporation can serve a prison sentence for fraud.

Comment Re:Why fear designer babies? (Score 1) 155

Because then any babies that are not designer babies will become second class citizens. For instance, the scenario posited by the movie Gattaca.

The real dangers here is that it could eventually cause the designer part of the species to form a new subspecies of homo sapiens. Or perhaps accidentally engineer out something that could (in theory) allow non-engineered humans to resist a disease or some other sort of thing that would cause them harm, though that is far less likely.

Comment Re:Weak (Score 1) 312

Is it bad that I initially misread this as omni-science, rather than being all-knowing? I could probably do quite a bit with a sufficiently advanced technology...

Anyway, if I am omnipotent I can make myself omniscient. And after I decide to lift the stone I've made that's too heavy for me to lift because omnipotence trumps logic and causality, I'll make a new version of humanity where the components are not quite so prone to unfortunate errors, breakage, and purported design flaws. Still going to leave mortality in there and make allowance for the postmortem existence and transfer of consciousness to another plane of reality. Heck, might even make it so you can shuffle back and forth from time to time, we'll call it reincarnation.

I'll just make sure that there's solid, unquestionable proof of it.

Comment Re:We are the geeks, we are not tools for non-geek (Score 5, Insightful) 465

The "consultant" thought he would make a name for himself by acting like Gordon Ramsay. Hilariously, he was right, just in the exact opposite of what he hoped for. Unlike the chef, he did nothing to earn any such position and tried to generate strife where there was none.

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