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Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to ‘play God’, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist today.

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Ramez Naam Philosophy Science

The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...

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Ramez Naam Burn Burning Child Children Corals Death Die Economics Economy Environment Environmental Environmental Conservation Environmental Degradation Environmental Protection Environmentalism Forest Forests Globalism Globalization Humanity Mind Mind Power Nationalism Politics Poor Population Population Control Population Explosion Population Growth Poverty Problem Problems Rich Scarcity Society Starvation Struggle Tipping Point Western Civilization

Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special?It doesn't.

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Ramez Naam Celebrity Money Normal People Pointless Pointlessness Popular Popularity Power Purpose Society Special

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

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Ramez Naam Adopt Adopted Adopted Kids Adoption Breeding Child Children Offspring Parent Parenthood Parenting Parents Selfish

Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.

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Ramez Naam Human Rights Humanity

People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.

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Ramez Naam Fear Value People

We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'

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Ramez Naam Time Freedom Good

Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?

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Ramez Naam Technology Good Deep

I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.

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Ramez Naam Love Work Lie

I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

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Ramez Naam Job Data Search

Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.

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Ramez Naam Red Fish Why

Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.

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Ramez Naam Change Energy Meeting

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

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Ramez Naam Knowledge Power Rest

Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.

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Ramez Naam Environment Human

Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.

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Ramez Naam Science Sky Powerful

Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.

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Ramez Naam Life Impact Earth

On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.

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Ramez Naam Change Problems Think

Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

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Ramez Naam Wealth Rise Nation

Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.

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Ramez Naam Technology Humanity

Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

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Ramez Naam Food Single Activity
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