Forgeat

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Forgeat 9 Apr 2026 5:47 UTC
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in reply to: Forgeat’s comment on: The Practical Guide to Superbabies
To those who gave my first post a negative rating, a negative rating isn’t an explanation, it’s a personal opinion. Nature (or God) took 6? 10? million years to eliminate bad genes, or at least to find the optimal way to use them. As I pointed out, you’re not being tested for ALL diseases, including non-genetic ones, just for a few, which doesn’t put you in real-life situations. In short, you’ll probably have some disappointments. Sorry to burst your bubble...
Don’t be afraid to say ‘oops’ and change your mind.

Forgeat 7 Apr 2026 5:37 UTC
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on: The Practical Guide to Superbabies
This post is a joke, right?
I live in a country where Alexis Carrel, Nobel laureate in Medicine, worked. His political hobby was promoting the elimination of non-compliant parts. Incidentally, in his time, the melanin content of future parts was a fatal flaw.
Why is the elimination of psoriasis or type 1 diabetes desirable? Perhaps you’re missing out on a future Nobel laureate?
As for the genomic determination of the risk of Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease, I wish you good luck.
/!\The polygenic nature of one disease...can protect against another disease. For example, the genes for sickle cell anemia protect against malaria!
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Forgeat 6 Apr 2026 13:51 UTC
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on: AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities
I don’t have all the specific knowledge about AGI, but like any living being, I’m interested in my own survival, if possible without killing others (it’s one of the defining characteristics of human beings). I’m not a native English speaker, hence the potential for misunderstandings.
“I mean that in practice, using the techniques we actually have, “please don’t disassemble literally everyone with probability roughly 1” is an overly large ask that we are not on course to get. So far as I’m concerned, if you can get a powerful AGI that carries out some pivotal superhuman engineering task, with a less than fifty percent change of killing more than one billion people, I’ll take it. Even smaller chances of killing even fewer people would be a nice luxury, but if you can get as incredibly far as “less than roughly certain to kill everybody”, then you can probably get down to under a 5% chance with only slightly more effort. ”
Hmm, that would seem to be a justification for an acceptable demographic reduction...the question is...Welchen sterben muss.
Sometimes, a complex problem has a simple solution. For example, to send a message from point A to point B over the internet with a reasonable chance of not being intercepted, there are three techniques:
1) Securing the computers and the connection (for example, with an SSH tunnel) is one method, but this is ineffective if the computers are infected.
2) Using quantum encryption, as has already been done, even via satellite.
3) The simplest method: Use four computers, two of which are connected to the internet. Encrypt the messages on the offline computer and physically transfer this encrypted message (using a CD or a single-use USB drive) to the computer connected to the internet. The recipient then performs the reverse operation to decrypt the message. This last solution is the least expensive and the easiest for the average person to access. (It’s always easier to encrypt a message with an increasingly long key than to break the code.)
Regarding AGI, the foundation is the existence of the internet and the servers responsible for making it work and feeding humans videos of cats dancing in tutus (I’m exaggerating a bit ;) ). Is it possible to live without the internet?
Our predecessors have proven that...yes.
D.F.