Academy of Sciences of Heroesland

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KIBBARGI!

No, but this would be awesome, guys.

Seriously, at one point, I even considered putting my hands under a train so that I could get cybernetic implants. Now I've had second thoughts; why should I mutilate myself when, in 50-60 years, I will become a full-fledged electronic lich? For now, my task is to become an oligarch with a fortune of at least several billion dollars, etc., I won't reveal my plans to you... But in any case, science is progressing, and I, accordingly, am supporting the egregor of scientific and technological progress on the astral plane. All that remains, as they say, is to wait for universal happiness.

By the way, they say that in Switzerland, they are already considering a bill according to which each resident will be paid a certain amount. That is, in fact, the need to work disappears, as machines will replace the vast majority of professions.

So, against this background, why are there 6 billion people on Earth? I believe that if about 80% of these people disappeared, humanity would not lose anything.

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Oh, yes, it is worth adding that if we live to see the colonization of Mars (and I hope we do), then maybe it would be worth promoting procreation. But when will that be...

This is nonsense. Even if we ignore such arguments as the importance of each person, that in some village once in a hundred years a prodigy may be born, and so on, we must not forget that these 80% are part of a huge economic system. If they did not exist, the remaining 20% simply could not work on progress at the current rate, even if they were even smarter than they actually are.

Prodigies, you say? Okay. Then, let's say that we have a system of genetic modification of people that turns any newborn into a prodigy. Moreover, not only in terms of intelligence but also physically. Then your theory about natural selection is irrelevant. That's one. Secondly, quantity does not mean quality, and this entire economic system is nonsense, with millions of poor, disabled, and schizophrenic people.

It doesn't exist. And without these 80%, it will never exist. Although... maybe in four or five hundred years, some guy on a forum will write a post that such a system could be created.