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Charlie Stross called the Singularity “the rapture for nerds”.

Good luck with that – I’m a pzombie this year for tax purposes.

Is that actually true? Have they been audited? One problem with long-term storage is “long-term” is a thing that humans are bad at.

The main character commits rape because this isn’t a real universe anyway. You made the right choice.

It’s true, but they are still fairly easy to injure.

Try forming a fist and then hitting with the outside edge of the hand instead of your poor little fingers.

Or learn from your ancestors and become a tool-using mammal. I understand milkshakes have a distinct fondness for fascists.

Mike is a fed, yes.

So is Steve. The snack thing is left over from his previous undercover assignment at NORML. That didn’t end well, but he’s pretty sure he can get Mike to agree to buy explosives, which will be a good bust.

Shorter: “Let’s assume that I’m a godling. I will definitely be an evil god. Here’s how.”

My friend’s father – coincidentally named Feinman, not Feynman - used to say “They always advertise what they haven’t got.”

“Less Wrong”.

It’s not that verbing nouns weirds language so much as the regreekification.

Genetically altering IQ is more or less about flipping a sufficient number of IQ-decreasing variants to their IQ-increasing counterparts. This sounds overly simplified, but it’s surprisingly accurate; most of the variance in the genome is linear in nature, by which I mean the effect of a gene doesn’t usually depend on which other genes are present

Contradicted by previous text in the same article (diabetes), not to mention have you even opened a college-level genetics text in the last decade?

Anyway, I would encourage these people to flip their own genome a lot, except that they probably won’t take the minimum necessary precautions of doing so under observation in isolation. “Science is whatever people in white coats say it is, and I bought a nice white coat off Amazon!”