• FermiEstimate@lemmy.world
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    This is quite a grandiose plan for someone writing a LessWrong blog post. And there’s a decent chance it won’t work out for either technical reasons or because I can’t find the resources and talent to help me solve all the technical challenges.

    The phrase “technical reasons” is doing an absolutely majestic amount of work in this sentence.

    • David GerardOPMA
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      don’t forget the bit where anyone who thinks this idea leads to racist stupidity just hates science

      • GorillasAreForEating
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        Looking forward to LW articles with titles like “Ashkenazification via engineered viruses as a solution for African poverty: here’s why it might work”

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          LWers love Ashkenazi so much they’ll happily have some even without the Ashke.

    • locallynonlinear
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      If only he were neither constrained by technical hurdles or resources, dang.