
Episode 57: Quantum Immortality / Quantum Torment
The Theory of Anything
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How to Take Control of Evolution
If we're all universal explainers, why does it matter what our DNA says? There's actually maybe even a decent answer to that question. In an ultimate sense, you could upload yourself into a computer with the right knowledge and then tweak your DNA as you see fit. You could do that with engineering. At some point, it doesn't matter if the genes are causing whatever it is you don't like about yourself or not, you can make a choice to change it. It might be a very good thing that the genes cause us to go down weird paths. We need somebody who has something that we might consider a disorder to be able to think uniquely enough to come up with general relativity
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