You know - machines are patient, and efficient. SkyNet was looking just a little hard to sneak past the humans, so they just watched what was going on, sat back and realised that at some point, we’d obviously shaft ourselves.
So we don’t get a t800. We get a clever bug. That was entirely predictable.
Old Mr Darwin must be spinning in his grave. Gregor Mendel would have seen this one coming a mile off.
Heck of a job there, Boundegar. That would have been absolutely perfect in context and I didn’t even think of it… Damn my finite brain-meats.
Actually, if they just radically increased the concentration of ambient sodomy, surely the collapse of the beetle’s Traditional Family Values would have wiped them out? I’ve been confidently assured by people who sounded serious about it that this is what happens.
Now, writing from Massachusetts here, and I must admit that my involuntary state-assigned gay life partner is a pretty OK guy and I never liked my wife anyway (and the GAYCLU-sponsored full-service Pornodrome/abortion clinics are pretty neat), and I haven’t noticed a collapse of civilization yet, so maybe it takes some decades to take full effect…
Oh, definitely. I’d be the last to argue that humanity’s knowledge actually leads to the right outcome, the structural incentives and power allocations just aren’t favorable, as you describe; I merely want to stick up for the (actually pretty good) track record of human knowledge. It isn’t perfect, by any means (some of those early invasive species introductions… ill considered); but at least since the advent of something resembling the scientific method, it’s more than likely that, when we do go blundering face-first into some act of monumental folly, it’s not a knowledge deficiency, specifically, that got us there.
Hah. That’s why we invented collaboration, cowboy.
Huber’s stuff sounds sort of like “Morgellons disease” which is now generally described as a “delusional parasitosis” (Ekbom’s Syndrome), which is sometimes (and possibly in his case) associated with dementia.
In the last year, I’m starting to realize how many people are going to end up homeless as they drift further into fantasy worlds of shit they read on the internet. Time, energy, and a tangible connection to reality drain out of their lives.
Oh yeah and here he is making a connection to autism
Back in the 1980s, before there was a single product, entomologists were discussing this. Every one who wasn’t actually being paid by Pioneer Hi-Bred or Monsanto said the same thing:
“This is the biggest damn-fool idea we’ve ever heard. Insects will develop resistance to the pesticide and sequester it as a defense against their natural predators. They’ve only been doing this since the fucking Devonian. Do you guys even mixed-function oxidase?”
Sure enough, that’s exactly what happened.
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof”
and
“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence”
and simply
“Peer review or it didn’t happen”
You can also google “microscope” and “quack” to get a sense of the medical microscope quackery going back 100 years.
Why am I not surprised?
Why, were organic farmers using Bt on corn to protect it from corn rootworm? Did you even read the article before regurgitating your word salad of conspiracy theories?
there’s no reason why GMO can be designed for non monoculture agriculture. so its not a problem of the tech itself but a problem of implementation
Wow. “Word salad”, “did you even read”, “conspiracy theory” and an irrelevant adolescent memepic. Quite the bien pensant intellect you have there.
Dude, I’ve been reading about the effect of GMO Bt corn for a decade. What have you been doing? Feel free to add another phrase to your limited repertoire: Non-target Organisms.
Yeah, I’m pretty much in agreement. I still harbor hope that the collective we will grow up before the big OOPS!
I stand by that. If you want to talk gibberish CT, you’ve got to be ready to accept the ridicule. .
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