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2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? The idea that the only correct answer is one that can be empirically proven. 2013 : WHAT *SHOULD* WE BE WORRIED ABOUT? The social sciences being invaded by those who view them as a platform for Social Justice, diluting progress. Also, the current West African Ebola outbreak becoming a global pandemic and threatening the survival of our species. 2012 : WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION? Karl Pilkington, standing in front of Petra in Jordan, said something to the effect of "I would rather be living in the cave across the canyon looking at this facade every day, than living in the palace and looking at a cave every day." 2011 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY'S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT? Dissociation of the brain from the individual. 2010 : HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK? I feel alone during the internet's off-peak hours, even though there is an entire active world around me. 2009 : WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING? Better understanding of the human thought process will allow the application of a more scientific form of empathy, allowing us to empathize with the reasons behind one's feelings, as opposed to the feelings themselves. 2008 : WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY? Ethics in research. Progress supersedes moral quandary. 2007 : WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT? Digitization of the human psyche, and by proxy, an escape from the problems of the physical realm. 2006 : WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA? Revolution and a violent, bloody fight for an equal distribution of wealth. 2005 : WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT? That the final seconds of human consciousness before death are stretched infinitely through time dilation as the brain floods with dimethyltryptamine, and at the very moment of death we will each experience a virtually limitless 'afterlife' restricted solely to our fading consciousness. |
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Post your own answers, edge.org might have answers from the world's smartest individuals but I want answers from the world's most hosed-up |
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2008: whoah do you really think that 2005: me too man same every word |
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Funnypost Collabo posted:the world's most hosed-up |
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ron color posted:2008: whoah do you really think that In a certain fashion, yeah, as long as it's all volunteer-based and participants are informed of what they're getting in to. We don't need another Tuskegee or air crib. |
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I would willingly sacrifice my life in the name progress, but I'm not allowed to because that kind of research is illegal. |
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Funnypost Collabo posted:In a certain fashion, yeah, as long as it's all volunteer-based and participants are informed of what they're getting in to. We don't need another Tuskegee or air crib. "Volunteer Based" for something like experimental medical research almost always means exploiting the vulnerable |
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2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? its okay to not like mice and rats, and its okay to stick needles in them and make them have growths and its okay to mutilate them and to learn special techniques of breaking their necks very quickly so as to be humane after making them live lives of torture and suffering but please dont stand outside the lab and scream "I loving LOVE SCIENCE" after each death because it is throwing the researchers off their game 2013 : WHAT *SHOULD* WE BE WORRIED ABOUT? to quote that mad magazine guy, "What should I worry about, me?" no. not really. you're fine. I was worried because i thought, you know, when I had a Mickey Ds Grilled Onion Cheddar Burger, it was really loving good. it's only a matter of time before it catches on and then maybe when I go to mickey ds, they'll say "we're out of onions" because its' not like they sell onion rings or anything. anyway, turns out I asked the guy and they said they have lots of onions and not to worry, and that's pretty much true of everything. 2012 : WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION? just before he was shot, michael schwerner said to his murderer "Sir, I know just how you feel." 2011 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY'S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT? a screwdriver 2010 : HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK? before the internet I used to drive around pointing at words and waiting for knowledge, now when i do that something happens 2009 : WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING? i know this guy that had liver failure and he was on a waiting list for a liver and eventually they got him a liver and put it in him, and instead of dying, he lived. the liver was from a 25 year old heroin addict who had overdosed and the guy they put it in was in his forties. anyway, he told me to keep this on the DL but when the doctors put it in him they told him that basically, he was going to be 25 again instead of 40 and sure enough he began to lose wrinkles and be able to drink wine without getting a headache and stuff, so i think it's going to change everything when they realize that they can put old peoples livers into young people and then teenagers wont be so annoying anymore, because won't be 15 or whatever. they'll be 60, liver-wise, which apparently is all that matters. id ont know how we're going to justify killing all those grandpas and grandmas but i guess that's just part of changing everything, which is that you cant figure it out in advance, you just have to "go for it." 2008 : WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY? i used to think graffitti was cool, but when you think about it its just doodling on buildings, which is kind of lame 2007 : WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT? life is really good, man. it's totally cool. Lots of good stuff happens, and if good stuff isn't happening for you, it's probably right around the corner. 2006 : WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA? it's a bar where you can go in and challenge anyone to all these different contests, like a pissing contest, and theyve got a room with gutters and lines on the floor that say "5FT" "10FT" and so on and instead of there just being bartenders there are referees, and you dont pay for the alcohol, you just pay for the referees to judge your contests. okayt maybe you pay for the alcohol a bit, but not as much as you normally would. so there's like a wrestling room,a nd arm wrestling tables, and rock paper scissors, and all of this is refereed by actual referees and you get your name up on a board that says what you did, like if you peed 8 ft, and that'[s a record, then you get your name there, but even if you just peed 2 ft, it still goes on your record, and you can show people later. there's lots of games, and the name of the bar is 'TESTEYS, because its where you go for contests, and also to show your balls (whose balls are bigger is one of the contests). anyway the reason its dangerous is that you don't get a license and you have the bar in an abandoned steel mill 2005 : WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT? i came up with a number of popular and famous memes. i was the guy that said them first. |
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Pro Target posted:"Volunteer Based" for something like experimental medical research almost always means exploiting the vulnerable After the violent revolution of my 2006 answer there won't quite be 'vulnerable' in the same capacity that exists now |
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Jun 30, 2014 02:09
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Then why not experiment on the bourgeois instead |
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dogcrash truther posted:2009 : WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING? lol |
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Pro Target posted:Then why not experiment on the bourgeois instead The only thing they've done wrong is had enough money to isolate themselves from the world and lose touch with what it means to be human. Take away the money, return the humanity. |
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I imagine all of Human Society as a guy playing Civilization, and I find myself wishing he would go for the Long Game and spam wonders instead of churning out tanks to protect his Industrial era workers and scouts. |
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Funnypost Collabo posted:The only thing they've done wrong is had enough money to isolate themselves from the world and lose touch with what it means to be human. Take away the money, return the humanity. What a naive ideology |
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actually "all they did wrong" was perpetuate the cruel and intentional degradation of humankind for their own gain, for centuries and then for countless centuries before that as feudalism |
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what progress is being stifled by ethics, or is the refinement of more humane ethical standards, in fact, part of the progress of scientific research? |
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theyre trying to develop the best serum for killing mice but they ran out of mice and now they need to use humans |
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Pro Target posted:actually "all they did wrong" was perpetuate the cruel and intentional degradation of humankind for their own gain, for centuries and then for countless centuries before that as feudalism Because of their detachment from humanity, yeah. Remove the barrier and within two generations the problem will solve itself. |
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Actually if you dont remove them permanently you've left a dangerous counter-revolutionary element that will stab you in the back |
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seems to me like "progress" without ethics is an ideology of capital so I'm not sure how you think you'll eliminate the bourgeoisie but retain the structural elements of capitalism without sowing the seeds of counter-revolution |
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dogcrash truther posted:what progress is being stifled by ethics, or is the refinement of more humane ethical standards, in fact, part of the progress of scientific research? It's important to separate my use of the term ethics from your personal moral beliefs, and instead define it as "the moral beliefs of each member of society". Ethical guidelines aren't always "right", think of e.g. Stem Cell research being impeded by religious ethical beliefs, the fact that some schools or textbooks still teach creation or abstinence-only sexual education, the ethical guidelines of the superelite in reducing the quality of life of the working class, the belief that "I earned my money, so they should too", religious wars, etc. It's not that ethics are bad, it's that they're subjective, and any time you use your ethics to prove a point, someone else can prove the opposite point with their own moral guidelines. It's too polarizing to be a successful impetus. |
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Pro Target posted:Actually if you dont remove them permanently you've left a dangerous counter-revolutionary element that will stab you in the back Anyone who would be willing to fight it will die in the revolution. |
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I can tie the two together by saying that my own ethical beliefs against killing and experimenting on the bourgeois are irrelevant in the name of progress, which necessitates the killing and exploitation of the bourgeois. |
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Funnypost Collabo posted:Anyone who would be willing to fight it will die in the revolution. Yeah, the most cowardly and conniving class is going to pick up an AK and go toe-to-toe with the proletarian masses |
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I feel like money and influence are the only weapons they wield and without the money, they wouldn't have the influence, and they would be powerless |
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Funnypost Collabo posted:I feel like money and influence are the only weapons they wield and without the money, they wouldn't have the influence, and they would be powerless money and influence are two signs within the totalizing superstructure of capitalism: they're external markers of a huge and complex process. That's why following the money is so important, because it's not so much who has it as how it gets from place to place that matters. taking money away from the bourgeoise is like trying to drain a river without damming it first. It just keeps on flowing |
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I don't entirely agree with the presupposition that all future actions will fit within a historic modality. |
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Funnypost Collabo posted:I don't entirely agree with the presupposition that all future actions will fit within a historic modality. how can you define "progress" if that's the case? |
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Breaking free of the historic modality we shackle ourselves to and moving onward to new horizons we couldn't currently imagine. |
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Funnypost Collabo posted:Breaking free of the historic modality we shackle ourselves to and moving onward to new horizons we couldn't currently imagine. has progress ever happened, then, in your opinion, and if so when? |
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Nacho Destroyer posted:one time i read someone describe dogs as genetically engineered servants who have to lvoe you Dogs are a literal slave species. We enslaved an entire species, then engaged in a 10,000 year long eugenics campaign to slowly change them into forms better suited for being slaves to humanity. |
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Frank Horrigan posted:Dogs are a literal slave species. We enslaved an entire species, then modified them to be better slaves. im glad |
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It's everywhere and I don't want to narrow its scope down to a single event. Most of the modern world would be incomprehensible to a man born 1,000 years ago, much of the world 1,000 years from now would be incomprehensible to us. I don't think it's up to us to dictate the standing of the world 1,000 years from now, only to drive ourselves and our species towards it. There are some obvious imperatives such as not destroying the world or its ecosystems, or not submitting the working class to a deeper form of slavery, as those would inhibit the ability for our species to survive another 1,000 years. To try and shape the destiny of our species is to claim that we know, better than the people of the future, what the people of the future will want, or feel is 'right' or necessary. If I had to narrow it down, how about medicine? For thousands of years man considered illness to be the working of a divine or otherworldly being of great power. The first individuals to consider a natural, defeatable cause behind illness were ridiculed and told that their way of thinking did not fit the established model of the way the world worked, but they ignored the historic model and pushed us in to an era where the war on sickness is one that we could potentially win. I guess I consider 'progress' to be the birth of new ideas and methods of thought, regardless of their validity. |
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Frank Horrigan posted:Dogs are a literal slave species. We enslaved an entire species, then engaged in a 10,000 year long eugenics campaign to slowly change them into forms better suited for being slaves to humanity. I don't even feel good about having a dog anymore |
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