consider how many people, given sufficiently advanced genetic engineering, would choose to edit out their reproductive drive because it's just so much fucking trouble and now you know what the Great Filter is
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Replying to @chaosprime
Perhaps but then you could also change the brain's reward circuitry to make it not seem troublesome. A better candidate would be retreating into virtual reality or altered states of consciousness.
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"editing out reproductive drive" is a subcase of "retreating into altered states of consciousness"
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I can see that, but then again the altered states of consciousness of the future will be far stranger and more alien than just getting rid of the desire for reproduction
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for sure remarkable how one really doesn't need to retreat that far at all for it to be fatal though
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