We wouldn't have the Wright Brothers, if Otto Lilienthal didn't exist.

False. They literally consulted an ethics board and had it approved. Hmm. How many ethics experts approved your comment before you spewed it out into the world?

Huh? It's worse then. Because someone who needs an organ transplant likely has a weak organ .. a trait they might pass on to their kid. With DNA the fix is a gift to the subsequent generations. By the way your argument is ridiculous, it's like saying if you have brown eyes you shouldn't marry someone with blue eyes because then you're playing God because it's unnatural to mix brown eye and blue eye genes.

My throuple can have a baby! I'll tell my polycule.

How is this any different than organ donation anyway? Funny to watch the right-wing losers freak out over it though.

Felix Baumgartner did take calculated risks. Certainly not any less than say Otto Lilienthal used to take in the late 1800s, which directly inspired the Wright Brothers to work on airplanes.

Just curious .. have you compared his achievements to yours?

A few things. But I'll mention because it's inspiration by resurrecting in us the human spirit of adventure We need that, it is what will differentiate us from robots. As robots achieve AGI over the coming years, we'll need to know who we are as a species. That we're a feeling species, in addition to thinking. A robot too can jump like that from the stratosphere .. but only if necessary, and as instructed. A human has to overcome fear to do it (alongside other things like setbacks, planning, procrastination) and is rewarded with a dopamine fix/adrenaline rush.

Without these people who dare to push the boundary, we'd hardly advance as a species. We need people who want to do things bigger.

I've been getting hit with that a lot since at least last month. And usually it's because it is correcting its own bugs in code it spit out. Worse is when it has truncations and fragments of code.

Kessler is not feasible .. not unless it's done deliberately at great expense (like if someone launches 100s of tons of 500 gram tungsten carbide ball bearings).

Provably false. There are literal penalties for consensual sex vs. punishment for rape in the Bible. They clearly understood sex can be consensual with both parties. For example, the Biblical law was that if a man if found having sex with a woman and only if the woman didn't cry out for help would she be in trouble.

Deuteronomy:
23. If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her,
24. you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife. You must purge the evil from among you.
25. But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die.
26. Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor,
27. for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.

By the way .. even in modern times "showing someone whose boss" is a strong component to raping. The gratification comes from that.

1- Ham "saw his father (Noah) naked" .. that was a grave sin. "Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him." Note that Noah did not get in trouble, while Ham was cursed.

(2 Samuel 13:11–14 NIV) - But when she took it to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, 'Come to bed with me, my sister.' 'No, my brother!' she said to him. 'Don't force me! Such a thing should not be done in Israel! Don't do this wicked thing. What about me? Where could I get rid of my disgrace? And what about you? You would be like one of the wicked fools in Israel. Please speak to the king; he will not keep me from being married to you.' But he refused to listen to her, and since he was stronger than she, he raped her.

Where did I demonize them? F off. Nor did I even proclaim them my enemy. It's a fact they'll do this though. Not as an enemy but as someone who wants a useful AI.

I am very sorry to hear that. I googled the 9% chance cancer .. is it pancreatic? We all have to get on the bus sometime. Seems like the current (seemingly) unevenly distributed cyclical structure of the universe made it so good things end, but then so do bad. Eventually.

The ancients knew what homosexuality was. Plato, who lived 300 years before Corinthians was written argued for its prohibition. And btw Corinth is in Greece.

Basic googling shows there are ancient stories wherein homosexuality is depicted as demeaning or bad in many cultures -- for example in Ancient Egypt, the story of Horus and Set and also this line from the Egyptian Book of the Dead: . The 27th confession, from the translation of the Papyrus of Nebseni, reads: "I have not committed acts of impurity, neither have I lain with men."

I'm not sure why you're tying in that line with natural disasters. There's no mention of natural disaster in the statement "If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them."

Also why does it say "both of them have committed an abomination" ?? If it referred to pedophilia, surely the kid is blameless.

Dude what was the purpose of that line in the Bible then? It was NOT referring to pedophilia. If it was meant to be just about pedophilia it would have phrased it differently. The Bible mentions kids in other contexts, so yes there was a word they could have used. People back then knew what homosexuality was. Let me be clear that I see nothing wrong with homosexuality, however I that doesn't mean I have to dommental gymnastics to make the Bible says what I want it to say. Most people are not gay or attracted to men. Same as how you are not attracted to cows or doing it with a bicycle. You are saying the Bible was telling people not to be gay because it would prevent natural disasters? Let’s assume that’s the case. It still means the Bible was saying don’t do gay activity. read the Bible quote carefully and try to figure it why somebody wrote it there if not to ban that activity. They literally said God hates it.