Biotech: Human Modification & Augmentation
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- In the future Biotechnology may allows us repair, modify, or augment humans, but how will this be done? What will these technologies look like and should we embrace them?
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Biotech: Human Modification and Augmentation
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 289, May 6, 2021
Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
Writers:
Isaac Arthur
Jason Burbank
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A.T. Long
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*"...trees that grow bacon..."*
You have my full attention!
How about a tree that can mine Bitcoin
I've always imagined a hamburger tree.
if you made a meat tree you'd probably have to make circulatory, nervous, and immune systems in the plant closer to that of an animal. It'd also need extra mechanism to recycle or excise waste produced by growing the meat (which is just muscle tissue) I'd like to think it's grow it in pods which would be all weird and squirm because the nerves stimulate the muscles inside to prevent atrophy and help them grow. Also when you picked them they would probably like seize and freak out because of their parasympathetic nerves lol.
@@weston8400 The tree will cook its own bacon in the fruiting pods and, when fully cooked, will drop it down for easy harvest as the bacon strips are actually the seeds for new trees. There will be no seizing, freaking, or squirming (except if you tickle the tree under it's veiny limbs.)
@@weston8400 uh.. you just gotta make everything biodegradable
So it doesn't end up like plastic.
So your telling me in the future I could listen to SFIA whist fighting mindless orcs in vr while also looking like a idiot flailing around the house
A *good* looking idiot flailing around the house.
You're not already?
You can do that already, the vr just isn't as good.
Full sensory VR, Ya we all know what industry will bloom.
You mean mindless orcs in real life with perfect teeth?
The problem with replacing your eyes or ears with cybernetics is that you're in deep trouble if the people making the cybernetics aren't completely altruistic. Dune has Tleilaxu ayes and Paul Atreides muses "Who knows what bondage goes with metal eyes?"
Seems especially relevant now given the way big tech uses algorithms to shape the societal Overton window.
Google reviews will be super important when picking your genetics altering company for sure.
@@wolfvale7863 I would not trust Alphabet Corp. with telling me what is and isn’t safe, google archipelago style
@@richardsuckerson49 We are talking future. No shit is given for your current opinion of google. It is pointless to mention it.
@@wolfvale7863 What doesn that even mean? No shit will be given on his future opinion of google either nor yours for that matter. That doesn't mean corpos are trustworthy.
What if electricity companies threatened to shut down whole countries?
Moral of the story: Reduce your dependence on others when possible.
Imagine improving upon the inferiority of flesh when you can obtain the purity of the blessed machine?
-this post was brought to you by the Mechanicium of Mars Gang
Wait till you get your genes audited by a Magos Biologis who has lashed themselves together with Space Marine blood, Ork musculature and bones inspired by Tyranid chitin.
can I skip the part where I have to engage in elaborate rituals to turn on my laptop, if so I am in lol.
@@davidrichardson3001 wouldn't be much of a change for me, to be fair
As a frustrated transhumanist, I must agree.
Imagine getting hacked and deleted by a superintelligent AI or turned into a man of iron.
-this post was brought to you by His Holiest Inquisition.
You had me at “Bacon Trees.”
Aмеriкаn I presume XD
That would Canadian Bacon Trees for lumberjacks rafting down the rivers of British Columbia.
Re “candy or bacon”:
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Has english failed me or did Isaac seriously suggest bacon is not candy?
Yes! Now eat your fruit and veg lol
@@FIRE_STORMFOX-3692 bacon come from China 😑
Cody has probably inspired thousands of people to start beekeeping.
He makes it look easy :)
@@isaacarthurSFIA I've been doing it 3 years since watching his series on it, and I'm still not confident enough to inspect a hive without a full suit. Last winter was also the first year I had hives make it through.
@@cavemaneca good for you.
Human augmentation is always my favorite topic. So many philosophical cans of worms.
So, you got any augmentations yet?
A chip implant to replace keys for example?
@Infini Ryu Yep. It's not based on reason at all.
@bigjo yu The best part is that the moral solutions invalidate the cases for abortion
People calling even all forms of human augmentations as pseudoscience can boils my blood, even when that same augmentations are called science when used on other lifeforms
@Infini Ryu "It's a rather easy question" I can tell you never heard about the debate surrounding sickle cell anemia then. According to current research, the gene that gives people sickle cell anemia also gives a resistance to malaria. So no, it's not an easy question, especially since we're still very much at the stage where we're pushing buttons to figure out what they do and are far enough along to realize that "causing A also causes B as a side effect." Making a cure that ends up worse then the disease is not "silly religious superstition", it's a violation of basic medical ethics. And dismissing that makes you a total moron at best and a complete sociopath at worst.
Thank you for reminding me that I am dealing with technologists, not biologists. Most of you would flunk bio-ethics so hard, even letting you clean the toilets at your local doctor's office would be illegal.
There is a great sci-fi series of novels called Hyperion which explores the concept of bio-forming as an alternative to terraforming. I highly recommend it.
Another great episode!
There's also a great film called Pandorum, which shows what might happen when that goes horribly wrong, which I recommend :) Don't confuse my intent of this message of course, I'm quite optimistic about human genetic modification, but the film is good, so I recommend it!
@@decus9544 I love that movie so much. Yea the "monsters" are freaky but it's the ideas and concepts explored that really do it for me. A very underrated film Science Fiction film.
I'm about to get that ECHO eye i've always wanted.
I'm going to get a Sharingan.
@@KarlRosner eyes in naruto are literally just clipped into place and people can change them all they want lmao
All my Rimworld homies wear arcotech eyes
@@Dindonmasker they're magnetically attached..lol
sorry I have bad eye sight
but I can see in the dark better.
I wish to spread my wings and sail on beams of light.
Listen to the songs of the spheres and bear witness to the beauty of Sag A's X-Ray plumes.
Taste the first breath of a new born star and witness the death of warmth.
I wish to be alien among aliens in home skies, yet familiar to all.
I wish to stride in the dark places between cosmic pyres and be the youthful old, who dream forever but never die.
Sarif was right about one thing. It's in our nature to want to rise above our limits. Think about it. We were cold, so we harnessed fire. We were weak, so we invented tools. Every time we met an obstacle, we used creativity and ingenuity to overcome it. The cycle is inevitable... but will the outcome always be good? I guess that will depend on how we approach it. These past few months, I was challenged many times, but more often than not, didn't I try to keep morality in mind, knowing that my actions didn't have to harm others? Time and time again, didn't I resist the urge to abuse power and resources simply to achieve my goals more swiftly? In the past, we've had to compensate for weaknesses, finding quick solutions that only benefit a few. But what if we never need to feel weak or morally conflicted again? What if the path Sarif wants us to take enables us to hold on to higher values with more stability? One thing is obvious. For the first time in history, we have a chance to steal fire from the gods. To turn away from it now - to stop pursing a future in which technology and biology combine, leading to the promise of a Singularity - would mean to deny the very essence of who we are. No doubt the road to get there will be bumpy, hurting some people along the way. But won't achieving the dream be worth it? We can become the gods we've always been striving to be. We might as well get good at it.
Dacă ți ai da seama ca ești zeu pur și simplu gratie creatorului tău nu ai mai sta de vorba cu realizatorii de Fake-uri .
You might say our strength has been our weakness. In the same way I kind of see strength as a weakness as it makes you more likely to engage in conflict but also over estimated your ability.
This was so cool. Isaac let's have an entire episode dedicated to future horticulture!
So am I the only one depressingly expecting to be dead before this technology is useful to us? I'm gonna be 34 at the end of this month. I want to live *way* longer than humans do (preferably a couple hundred years or more) just to witness/experience/use future technology we're almost definitely not gonna have in my lifetime. Yet I feel like I'm gonna reach "death by old age" before the technology to extend our lifespans by much longer even exists... and that makes me sad...
Like I genuinely wonder if I'll even see cures for things like cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia, etc in my lifetime...
It can seem painfully slow sometimes, space and medicine techs in particular, but progress has been made :) Hopefully it speeds up
@@isaacarthurSFIA I hope so, as well.
I will almost certainly be dead before useful bio-augmentation becomes safe.
(My odds of surviving 10 years is 50/50. Things go downhill after that.)
The words on my ash-container will read: "I had other plans.".
Grow up
Right there with you, gonna be 30 in a year
Hearing you shout out "codys lab" made my day, i love his channel.. great content.. thanks Isaac love you too haha
Tbh I can't wait. I've spent way too much of my bodies best days working for companies that just use and discard you, can't wait to repair the damage from years of over work
"I don't like being used and discarded, so I want my body to be turned into a product to be used and discarded."
@@echoecho3155 For real man, this logic :)
@@echoecho3155 I mean, his body would be a product to be used and discarded for himself, so I think that is clearly better
Jobs might become unavailable to anyone who does not get the augmentations. For example the grocery store might not bother installing the old laser scanners since clerks who have a retina to neural link connection are faster. Construction firms will hire the electrician who can overlay blueprints while connecting wire. They do not need the slow guy who has to set down hand tools to read a print.
@@stefanr8232 I think that in that point, Jobs would become unavailable because of IAs and things like that. So, probably we can forget about that things
Imagine not understanding the weakness of the flesh, and not being digusted by it. Imagine not having the purity of the blessed machine
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What if this is the new overpriced product in the future
Pc master race to the next lvl.
Praise the Omnissiah
im down but we need to make sure technocrats bow to the population not the other way around
@@Android-dg5ri Ancom cyborgs I hear ya
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Re “awkward, pointy bulges in your pocket”:
Well, we are two wild and crazy guys. 🕺
Trees that grow candy... and bacon. I would grow an orchard...and also need three pancreas and a microbe that scrubbed out my arteries every other week hahaha
A microbe that eats blood plaque and very little else might actually be a fantastic medical tool
@@davidthomas2870 especially if it can excrete something that is beneficial or at least easily processed.
Adam Jensen was probably the most realistic depiction of a cyborg (at least in western visual media), but even then you had to wonder how the edges of where his skin ended weren't continually getting infected...
Yeah from what i can think, the majority of cybernetics will most likely be internal unlike the cybernetics you see in fiction since them being both internal and external is a bad idea and just asking for an infection. The visible ones would be your arms, legs, and eyes. Other visible cybernetics would most likely be just for aesthetics.
maybe his remaining organics were genetically enhanced to be more resistant to infections.
@@lonestarwolfentertainment7184it's funny that you say that because in the lore Adam Jensen was genetically engineered as a baby to handle cybernetics easier
Pure carbon material meta material using a porous framework that allows the tissue to join with it. Already used to heal bones.
I think all risks are worth it to get cat ears on people. I mean, we need Catgirls. :-)
I see your a man of culture. However something tells me theres more to cat girls than just cat ears.
@@spencervance8484 I mentioned cat ears, because Isaac did. And the rest is also worth it.
I have a sci-fi species that are literally cat-people. Why? Because it's my universe. (Un)fortunately their biology is completely incompatible with humans. For example they bleed purplish-red from a combination of oxygen carrying chemicals and have two hearts. Other than pesky things like internal workings they look strangely similar to us for aliens.
@@DigitalJedi hey man as long as the right parts of their biology are compatible;) whether they bleed red or endorian blue its all good👌😻👍
@@DigitalJedi if there's a hole there's a way -oh god what have i said-
"Using pain damping to do stupid things" is the oldest, most low-tech form of AR in the world.
Nowadays we call it getting drunk.
"Well, sir, we've been grown with the Gen-Five supergland. Whenever our model goes into overdrive, we get these cravings afterwards. No, sir, we didn't mean to do that to the prisoners, but we just couldn't help ourselves. Usually the MPs are on hand, but- Yes, sir. I'm sorry, sir." - Corporal NB-SEK-0172, 152nd Paratroop Regiment, Felicia bioroid
I want to see the sitcom Kahn's Kids with a nosey neighbour who constantly yells KAHHHHNN!!! when they come across the kids plan for global domination.
I can see a bumper sticker on Kahn's minivan saying "My kids are better".
@@RatBasterd "Your genetics and therefore your offspring are inferior to my own"
I would watch that show
"...it's hard to imagine much good coming of messing with one's sense of balance..." he says as I hit my bong and shoot tequila xD
"...animals that need tungsten to live"
Highly cromulent, Isaac.
Finally someone addressed the problem of gene interactions down the line with the weightlifter bitter example. Most people tend to think as genes as instructions that can be added and removed at will to get a singular result. But the reality is that the genome is highly interactive, interconected and complex system, where even a small alteration may lead to large unintended consequences down the line.
When people think about messing with genetics, they should think of it more on the lines of how they think of making changes in the timeline in a time travel scenario with chaotic interactions being the real danger.
I want blue hair…NATURALLY!!! 😠😤
Thanks, Isaac! I got my PhD in biology recently, and look for jobs in biotech now. By the way, can anyone recommend any books or blog posts about history and structure of modern biotech industry?
The Postgenomic Condition by Jenny Reardon is a pretty good read on the history of the genomics industry in particular, and issues surrounding biotech in general.
Loweren
If you want to deal with more technological ones, there _is_ company called Psyonic. Also the MRNA vaccine might actually have applications to fight cancer, I hear. So if Pfizer or Moderna are working at that, then there's that!
We are probably going to need to genetically modify ourselves in order to live long term in space.
Only if you want to live in microgravity.
🎶 Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With candied pork trees and Magellanic skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with cuttlefish eyes 🎶
Ghost in the shell. Defense barriers always a must.
I would love to be one of the first humans to be experimented on, especially life extension and brain augmentation
Same here, even with the risk of being crippled or killed in the process.
Absolutely!!! I don’t care about the risks, if importantly is something I can end up with sign me up
Biotech is extemely important - we as a species must prioritise it over AI research. For if we create an AI superintellegence we need to greet it as an equal - as bioengineered superhumans. If we dont it could easily mean extinction.
This is a great story foundation. My imagination just went wild with the possibilities.
@@greyspeight8776 Yeah lol. Hopefully, it remains just a story prompt.
AI research allows people to shield themselves from responsibility. So that is what we will go for.
The human body seems to complicated to be understood without some form of Artificial Intelligence. I think powerful biotech will come from specialized AI system (no AGI just big dick data analysis)
@@jayce8978 what if humankind could be understood without it, naturally e.g advanced intuition? For this to be true what would it be required? How many times history did teach us that the natural instinct, to comfortably following the status quo that always undertakes the same main path, the same main paradigm, doesn't necessarily mean there's no other way, no matter how ridiculous it/they might be, at first sight?
I'm excited for this future. I hope I live long enough to see this come to fruition
with the transistors getting smaller (7nm) and almost reaching it's peak at (1.5nm or smaller - currently unavailable).
Computing power becomes more and more powerful making SS+ super computers.
@@thefirstsin 2nm chip was just created at IBM so pretty close. Should reach domestic markets in 2023-2024
Been listening for years and this is a very good presentation, even by your high standards. Top notch!
In answer to the first question of the video:
YES, yes we should
Imagine a totalitarian government having the ability to read your deepest thoughts and manipulate your senses at will.
Turn off the tv.
Oceania in Orwell’s 1984 used “Telescreens” most people couldn’t turn off to do this (Think Smart TV’s continuously monitored by the authorities). Imagine the totalitarian government that could broadcast the propaganda directly into your brain & read your thoughts all using AI! 😱😢😬
That happen already
Bones largely coated in adamantium, muscle genes from the German superboy, perfect eyesight, Lion nightsight DNA, pigeon magnetic field sensors in my head, lizard regeneration genes, 220IQ, psychopath genes for lack of fear, I know what I want to look like.
A wolverine, lion, pigeon, lizard hybrid in the body of a boy with a taste for schnitzel?
Wise choice sir...I will just bring that up and get the syringe ready. 😄
i agree with everything except the psychopath genes, as that would mess with a lot of emotions that are pretty crucial like guilt depending on the type of psychopathy so let imagine say 20% of society got the psychopath genes, you now have people that could bench press a car when they were 5 combined with a extreme narcisistic personality disorder to the point they cant feel certain emotions, like regret for say killing someone. in other words that would be the recipe for the end of civilization, however increasing empathy while removing certain regards of fear could potentially be done
A world of psychopaths would fall into complete anarchy within a generation.
@@decus9544 Or become the Klingon empire
@@decus9544 Where we are now.
A few years ago I thought that DNA and RNA medicine was never going to arrive within my lifetime. Now I have my second Pfizer shot and I'm eating my hat.
Yeah, I just got mine too. I've been thinking about it. The progress in the field probably has something to do with the speed of sharing information. I wonder if the research could make it this far without the internet.
I have been drunk. A lot. But never anything harder. I was always worried about 'losing who I am' to an addiction. How much alteration I do to myself - is a big question. Learning that at 16 I could radically change my body by weight lifting was a massive door opener. Pulp fiction opened my eyes to ethics and civics. The future is going to be amazing. And just a little scary.
Then just limit it to physical alterations
Definitely a little scary & a lot weird. But also, _so_ much opportunity to better the human condition.
I just want what everyone wants, to be attractive, fast, coordinated, perceptive, strong, intelligent, and immortal. However we can accomplish that, let's do it.
"No, just be happy with how you are and accept the natural order of things!"
I'm with CGP Grey here. Eff the dragon tyrant, let's make Humans into demigods.
I want all that, but only on the condition that it'll require no effort on my part, cause i'm lazy.
Heres the problem, everyone wants that, and if everyone gets to be smarter, faster, immortal, etc. That would become the new norm. You wouldn't be special in such a world, amd in time, you would deaire to be even better than that.
@@thedude5294 yes you would. if we become demigods we will want to be gods. and that's a bad thing why? if you can have more without giving up any standard of living or public health then go hard until there are no more improvements to make on the human condition
@@virutech32 the problem is that people gauge their desires by comparing their posessions, be they physical, emotional, or personal traits, to those of others. If almost everyone has something, like eyesight which most of us have, having it is no longer special, it offers you no advantage, not having it on the other hand is a disadvantage.
Furries? Furries.
1:28 ... *wait WHAT* ... (paused the video) ... Okay where do I apply for the grants to engineer a *Bacon-tree* ?
No no no ... this is an honestly meant question ... who does fund stuff like this ?...
( disclaimer: I still search for a cool PhD topic ... so ... )
this episode was awesome! I can't wait for the next ones
thanks for not being all fan bio. i'm so happy to hear someone mention that drawbacks exist and not all tech is wonderful
Of course. As any arson investigator knows, there are still some people who don't even play well with fire...
I'm always surprised at how much we question the motivations of those who wants to enhance the human form and how little we question the motivations of those who wants to prevent it.
As the adage goes: Better to trust the Devil we know, than the devil we don’t.
Perhaps fear of competition
i hope you are not one of those who think the rich are preventing this type of scientific progress of enhancing the human body, so they can keep this technology for themselves, because realistically the ones who are trying to stop this type of technology from happening are the middle class and the poor. they are the most religious and the most paranoid when it comes to technology
So when can we expect the eugenics wars of 1997? I guess we have to get through the 1984 world first.
Well the first Augments will be modified to be more attractive. As augmented technology improves it'll move into muscle mass and improved athleticism. After that it's open season on anti-aging and prolonged lifespans.
I think the first one will be to help people with life debilitating illnesses and then athleticism and attractiveness.
@@brandonchapman4922 athleticism and attractiveness will probably be on the top of the list once its commercial and public use becomes more normalized, but I'm personally hoping anti-aging and prolonged lifespans come out first
@@EnoEshk it’s almost guaranteed life extension is going to come before we hit the absolute limit of what drugs and gene editing can do to upgrade in any particular way. One of the best ways to get more athletic is by living longer, as you stay in your prime longer regardless of your lifestyle. A lot of tech will likely come in bursts, where we get a boom in a new field then a period we get used to it before really working on another method
Of note, it's not just the genome that can be exploited to be augmented, but also the epigenome. Heck, epigenome modification is potentially far more powerful than endogenome modification, and also noninheritable.
Is there an overarching term that includes genomic and epigenomic modifications?
@@jasonburbank2047 Since both involve the genome, yes. Genetic Manipulation.
Looking forward to the day I get my Kiroshi optics, second heart, titanium bones, smart link, mantis blades and fortified ankles irl 😏
Human augmentation has always interested me but gene editing has interested me more than cybernetic augmentations has. Sure it would be cool to have all the perks cybernetics would have but theres a sense of pride the natural way. Just imagine if humans had the physical attributes surpassing every animals. I guess it’s not natural because it’s still using technology but it would still be interesting to see just how far we can push the limits of the human flesh.
Ok , nu am nimic împotriva sa experimentați pe pielea voastră fără intentia de a constrânge sau obliga prin lege operațiuni in masa .
Nu voi întreprinde nimic împotriva voastră nu e nevoie sa fac asta , curenții de aer sint in mișcare aparenta dar pana si cel mai mic vortex elimina orice este impur sau incomodează fluxul .
Starea de conflict se produce la ideea de Supremație , dar supremația nu exercita o stare nici nu fixează o poziție ,
Supremație= gratia et gratia .
This script is so dense I'm going to have to play it twice just to get my head around it.
Why stop at mere bacon trees?
Why not bacon trees that cures heart disease?
The doctor prescribed a diet of bacon for the next week.
MD: Im afraid you have lung cancer.
Me: How long, doc?
MD: You'll have to smoke anticancer tobacco only for the next month. here are some seeds if u want to homegrow.
^If only^
One thing I think I've noticed about human brains specifically is they are extremely adaptable. I believe that if a human was born with extra limbs (like arms or fingers) which are in an operational state, the brain teaches itself how to control them by applying random inputs and keeping track of how the limb moves as it does. It does this until it builds the reflexes required to carry out what the mind wants to do.
I just want reverse aging in the next 20-30 years, after that they can take their time perfecting these technologies.
Hopefully AI breakthroughs speedup the anti-aging tech development
As a transhumanist this is the episode I've been waiting for. My main concern in the short term at least would be the near certainty of exploitation of biotechnologies (and by extension, people whose bodies are altered by such tech) for corporate interests, but assuming that risk is neutralized in the future I'm very excited for the possibilities in this area
Edit: oh, and eugenics. That's my other big concern. Still, cyberpunk augmentation without the hypercapitalist dystopia? Sign me the fuck up already
Sarif was right about one thing. It's in our nature to want to rise above our limits. Think about it. We were cold, so we harnessed fire. We were weak, so we invented tools. Every time we met an obstacle, we used creativity and ingenuity to overcome it. The cycle is inevitable... but will the outcome always be good? I guess that will depend on how we approach it. These past few months, I was challenged many times, but more often than not, didn't I try to keep morality in mind, knowing that my actions didn't have to harm others? Time and time again, didn't I resist the urge to abuse power and resources simply to achieve my goals more swiftly? In the past, we've had to compensate for weaknesses, finding quick solutions that only benefit a few. But what if we never need to feel weak or morally conflicted again? What if the path Sarif wants us to take enables us to hold on to higher values with more stability? One thing is obvious. For the first time in history, we have a chance to steal fire from the gods. To turn away from it now - to stop pursing a future in which technology and biology combine, leading to the promise of a Singularity - would mean to deny the very essence of who we are. No doubt the road to get there will be bumpy, hurting some people along the way. But won't achieving the dream be worth it? We can become the gods we've always been striving to be. We might as well get good at it.
I like that this episode explores territory that hasn't been covered as thoroughly as other topics. I like exploring the Fermi Paradox, for instance, but that is well explored territory for this channel and it is hard to find something new to say about it.
i have a stutter so i understand about living with speech difficulty, but you, sir, are in possession of
a great gift. your speech patterns are endearing, easy to listen to, welcoming, and intelligent yet accessible.
we can hear you smile, feel your wit, enjoy your situational comparisons, and the list goes on...
no doubt you've received many messages like this but that doesn't make this one any less true. thank you
Hopefully your upcoming episode on Solar Flares also includes a deeper look at Mega Flares, Mega Filament CME's, and the potential of civilisation ending Micro Nova and Nova events where large portions of the stellar crust is ejected by recurrent nova stars like Sol. But not so much of an explosion that the star or it's solar system is destroyed.
Myostatin mutation sign me up!!!!! Also I would love to have Wikipedia inside my head.
Stellaris Players be like:
What are uses for psionic technology in the game? I’m curious for its applications.
I am more of a "The Flesh is Weak" guy, since i dont want a million slightly difrent pops in my empire. Organics are such a mess :P
@@nategray4989 You get own of the best ship modules in the game through psionics, and there are also fun little things like the avatars and the "End of the Cycle", always a great choice :D
Messing with the sense of balance would be real useful for pilots, astronauts, and those prone to motion sickness.
I was thinking about that for VR myself. Dreaming is virtual reality created by our own brains but we don't feel motion sickness while dreaming, I wonder why this is and if it's something future VR could do as well.
I think that the risk of this kind of tech is not a hacker plugging into your mind/senses, but the potential for unauthorized data gathering (as many companies do now) or spam. It's one thing to ignore an ever growing email list but to have spam directed into your brain is another.
Talk about, “Big Brother is watching you!” 2084 - Where your brain is the new “Telescreen”!
this proplem exists even if you don't have augments. the capacity to "hack" into someone's mind is a function of how well you understand it. advertising is modern brain hacking. so is art & rhetoric. the more we learn about the brain the worse it'll get. we've already got I/O so we are vulnerable but augmented I/O can host quantum-secure encryption & mathematically-provable code security. you can also turn them on & off at will or do real-time diagnostics on them with or without assistance from remote experts or expert systems.
Honestly, in this field, i don't think you can go further than what Space Marine has in terms of modification and augmentation. Especially considering the process. And the fact the God Emperor 100% used psyhic powers to reach that level.
the girl at 15:21 has made clear coffee. this future is not acceptable
Been waiting for more topics about the future look of life as we advance.
That bit at the beginning about making people as smart as the smartest person and as strong as the strongest person is the basis of two of my sci-fi characters. Both are the products of a now shut-down experiment.
The first is physically "perfect." His bones are tougher. His muscles are stronger. He's basically got a combination of disorders working together to make a captain-america-ish body for an otherwise normal person. The second character is his little sister. (They aren't actually related at all.) She's designed for perfect recall and speed intelligence. She has a combination of perfect recall and extremely speedy neurons.
I've also got characters with varying degrees of augmentation. The pilot for example has had his visual processing modified for a HUD and has a neuralink-style device that can control HUD like a monitor. Flying and EVA are both easier when you don't need to look away from what you're doing to see the instrument panels. The mechanic had a previous job as a "proxy." He was able to allow somebody else to "remote in" to some degree to either just ride along or even take the wheel for a set period of time. The copilot doesn't have any mechanical modifications, but she does have some gene tweaks for dealing with space better.
"Both are the products of a now shut-down experiment." Whole society's are going through shutdown experiments these days.
@@algorithmgeneratedanimegir1286 Why not? Her gender totally is unrelated to her ability.
To be able to turn off the steady whine of Tinnitus... that would be a little bit of Heaven right there!
*Cricket Noises Stop Completely*
My weekly highlight! Together with event horizon, which should come soon
@@Freja_Solstheim will do!! Thank you
a few years back there was a very interesting series on yuotube called h+. it was on nano bot augmented humans an what happens is someone lets loose a computer virus. after this i am going to re watch it.
This century will hopefully see us becoming biologically immortal, and eternally youthful. Hopefully with the level if badass cyberpunk style bodymods!
You dont know that. We dont know where the limits are
@@bezimeni2000 I said hopefully bro, but if you follow biotech, geneng, etc you see biotech following exponential growth curve a la information technology, I fully believe that biotech will achieve radical technologies by 2100.
Generation 1: Barbie dolls and Conan
Generation 2: Blue elves and pink gnomes
Generation 3: Normal looking people saying "God, the (20)70's were weird."
That's my expectation too!
15:19 That stock footage irks me. Who would ever be pouring plain water out of a Moka pot?
If you're going to be making blueberries and honey, you should definitely also consider picking up home brewing as a hobby. Unless alcohol is not your thing of course.
I always cringe at the idea of a mental network connection to ANYTHING. I don't care if it's a mechanical implant or a genetically engineered organ. Just look at how many times those systems have changed in the past 30 years, and think about the impact on technology if we forced a single, standardized interface.
Now think about the prospects of getting an 'update' to that, either an implant or a biotech organ, every couple of years. Remember, this is embedded in or directly connected to your brain. Neither of those options seem encouraging.
who said that was a homogeneous network. presumably u could have some reconfigurable hardware in your body & just update your firmware same as any hardware either over a network or through physical drives. even modern FPGA's are running fast enough to support very high-fidelity networking.
sure eventually ud want a proper hardware update but the tech implied by the regular BCI implantation is the same tech needed to make that sort of surgury routine & safe.
Hell the BCI hardware could outright be grown, reconfigured, & maintained by micromachines. so no surgery needed, though that would be a longer-term tech.
Sarah the blueberry farmer. Not on Ceres, just yet? Thanks as always!! Great stuff!!!
the section just after 13:11 where he talks about connecting the brain to computers and stuff, reminds me of the anime shows "Ghost in the Shell" and to a lesser extent "accel world". the former explores a future world where cybernetic brain/machine interface is common and the social consequences. the latter has devices called neural linkers that serve as personal computer pugged in to the the Brian via back of the neck, and used to play VR games.
New organ transplant technology would be a great improvement over the current options. Especially for children intestinal transplants.
The key to organ printing for transplant lies in space. Zero G allows the small blood vessels and other interior structures to be built without them collapsing or sticking together while they are constructed.
Good news is this is already being worked on. I have seen a 3D printed heart valve that actually functioned when a low voltage pulse was applied.
We are getting there. Just have to hold this body together a little longer. hehehe
Please sir, might I have a working pancreas?
When it comes to displays with tings on people seem to forget that the are of vision for humans is limited by the brain's processing power and eye structure... If you can find a way around that maybe it woud be possible to increase the 'visual area' for adding the displays. Then if they can find how that intergrates with teh rest of the mind and the processing is handle by the augmentation, maybe people would not need to take thier eys off of whatever they are doing, as they are already "look at the displays', the difference would be like you stopped to concentrate on a sound, in this case a an augmentation display. Rather than augmented reality overlay.
I have serious concerns about a brain linking to devices by non physical means as that may leave them vulnerable to remote threats. 'Close circuit', so to speak, sounds like a better choice. It a;lso leaves them vulnerable to subscription model manipulation (which includes the provider being at fault) or overrides. Something to think on.
Bodybuilder zombie like people, sounds like an interesting plot for a movie
id be first in line for superhuman augmentation lol
Mmmm, nah, I want steel and chrome and cool laser eyes. All our R&D money should go to that. Double plus good if the laser eye is powered by calories so we can lose weight by zapping things with our LASER EYE ATTACKS!
This episode is remind me of the computer game, Cyberpunk 2077.
>one type of biotech that is almost never depicted in scifi is engineered microbiota
ha, I did that!
Link?
I often tell people we have not yet had our Wright Brothers moment with medical technology.
we can do anything,thats the best part ,We can live forever, as soon as we break down Matter and put it back together, Where to store you ? I wonder.
Only an American will immediately think of teeth when discussing genetic modification.
There are gonna be ppl who are too into anime and would want to make catgirls.
I am saying half as a joke but i expects the ethics around Biotech are gonna be a big conundrum in the near future.
as a furry "TURN ME INTO A DOG PERSON"
Who says You should use just one animal?
I find this subject to be quite terrifying tbh. The potential for corruption is huge.
As long as we have a James T. Kirk we don't have to worry about Khan Noonien Singh.
I am just picking up beekeeping, myself. Go Sarah, it’s such an exciting concept!
Pain dampening would be extremely useful for any kind of surgery and even small things like repairing teeth cavities and even injections.
It will be the rich that has access to the tech. They will make an bio-aristocrat class. Where only the select few get longer lifespan of higher intellects.
Moving farther into the country to grow more blueberries and raise more bees. I think you might have the dream life mate.
@11:00 which means the Borg from Star Trek are overblown nonsense for the sake of drama.
As someone who has a family history of incurable genetic issues (including some that kick in well before adulthood), I'm somewhat more open to germ-line editing for known and understood genes to remove known genetic diseases.
This is an awesome technological potential on the verge of being tapped into here but it is as moraly empty as any other technology. Not only does it not mean anything without some sort of ideology, it is also completely impotent. We are happy to let consumerism define our current use of technology but even with our current level of technology, it is not at all obvious just how powerful it is until someone decides to go to war with it, you would see the same thing here. There is absolutely the risk that you end up with something like the Borg here if you have intensely competing nation states, only the generous part of our nature combined with mutual fear has stopped us destroying ourseves already, but the risk becomes exponentially greater when you incorporate virtual reality propaganda into lived experience - th potential for extremely powerful propaganda is very great.
If you have a pre-programmed reaction of extreme disgust and hate when you see a competing group or alien species that makes you want to collectively exterminate them - you might have a very powerful evolutionary advantage, but you also create an unbelievably hostile group of people. Imagine you have propaganda functions behind your eyes that make anyone who refuses to pray with you look extremely aggressive and dangerous and disgusting - you might look to destroy such a people out of self-defence and think of yourself as an honourable crusader for good. If ISIS or a group like them got a hold of this it's probably what they would do.
Another example would be the 'scots whae hae' bit in the 'forever war,' book - Imagine soldiers that could be instantly cued to extreme levels of agression and fearlessness with a voice command, very useful but morally questionable.
Once you go down the neuralink path (which comes with a lot of extra-ordinary advantages, as outlined in this video) you have to ask yourself what it means to be a person and a human and what sort of society you want, because 'god' is completely out of the picture at that point, we would finally have hammered in the last nail on that particular coffin.
Cybernetic cybersecurity! Happy ArThursday everyone
Ahjahahahah! Damn, most episodes have some line that is sooo quotable...
This video, it was "And now you have a bunch of musclebound lunatics with perfect teeth wandering the earth.".
My all-time favorite might still be: "We know aliens will be tough, because you don't claw your way to the top of the billion-year-deep corpse pile of Darwinian evolution by being wimps." Wonderful.