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I mean there are some options for dealing with that.
A. Early monitoring in childhood followed by extensive therapy
B. Eugenics if a genetic link is identified (least savory option and likely not possible)
C. Rebuild our social circles and communities
To expand on C, I think a lot of what you're identifying as narcissistic behavior or sociopathy is actually caused by the destruction of our communities. The way our society is built it rewards anti-social action with money and it's cold and depersonalized. It's easy as a upper executive to fire 500 people you've never once met and you will never meet. You don't have to know them beyond a few spreadsheets of data. People will absolve themselves of personal responsibility and refer to the financial aspects. Additionally, our communities have been destroyed. The addition of the nuclear family structure encourages you to provide as much as possible to as few individuals instead of valuing extended family and community. Plus in some places in the world it is possible to go days or weeks without ever interacting with members of your community.
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Yeah these days it's just altering in vitro. We have the tech, but we are rightfully frightened by it. It's hard to deploy in a way that it does good and is not abused
The sad thing is we do have the potential to shape a healthier human race. The potential to cure all genetic diseases and have a better future. We have the technology today.
Unfortunately we cannot be trusted to use it. It will 100% be used to target minorities and harm people to create something racists ideal. It's kinda sad
Dude we can't even take polio. You think we're ready to fuvk with our own genomes for this shit?
I mean we can, we have the tech but not the will.
Technology isnt just things that have batteries and go 'beep'. Technology is also systems of organization and coordination.
So no. No we don't.
It's the technology that goes "beep" the organization and coordination is what I would define as the "will" and that's what we lack.
Organization and coordination are technology though. They don't just happen. We create tools like phone trees and group chats and meeting structures and 'roles' and junk. Sometimes we do it in really horrible ways like feudalism/capitalism. That's no less technology than a faster less fail prone way to close an artery, or a knowledge of what parts of the EM spectrum will travel best here, and how to use them to communicate.
Fundamentallu capitalist conception of what a thing is; that a think is the bit you can possess, can own, and nothing else can realky be operated on or understood.
I like how you listed all things that do exist we just lack the will to put it all together.
Like there's not really anything we need to invent to do a lot of these things. We just have to put it all together.
It's not that logistics isn't technology, it is, but we already possess it. Like you said we're willing to implement it for profit, but we lack the will to implement it for these other uses
Well... Maybe
The good organizational systems mostly havemt been tried at scale, because they get the shit murdered out of them when they try. Like 9/11(never forget) or the spanish civil war.
The old ones have sone MAJOR compatibility issues, it turns out. Small and medium scale trials do show promise.