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Scientists To Grow 'Mini-Brains' Using Neanderthal DNA (theguardian.com)
Scientists will grow small amounts of tissue, known as brain organoids, from human stem cells that have been edited to contain "Neanderthalized" versions of several genes. "The lentil-sized organoids, which are incapable of thoughts or feelings, replicate some of the basic structures of an adult brain," reports The Guardian. "They could demonstrate for the first time if there were meaningful differences between human and Neanderthal brain biology." From the report: The latest work focuses on differences in three genes known to be crucial for brain development. Using the editing technique Crispr, changes have been introduced into human stem cells to make them closer to Neanderthal versions. The stem cells are coaxed using chemical triggers to become neurons, which spontaneously clump together and self-organize into miniature brain-like structures that grow to a few millimeters in diameter. The lack of any sensory input means the internal wiring is haphazard and varies from one blob to the next. The scientists will compare the Neanderthalized organoids and the fully human ones to assess the speed at which the stem cells divide, develop and organize into three-dimensional brain structures and whether the brain cells wire up differently. The work won't reveal which species is "smarter," but could hint at differences in the ability to plan, socialize and use language.
Usually accompanied by an ass bigger than their brain that even a goat could see.
How about spending money solving issues like corruption, disease and poverty?
This seems dangerous and offensive. There are no differences between any two brains. Everyone is the same and always was. Just because the Neanderthals get a bad narrative from the Patriarchy doesn't mean that everyone from Mediterranean Europe is inferior to those white privilege cro-mag ice people from the north. Even studying this should be illegal, because it may cause sensitive students to question the fact that every person is identical in every way.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
More Facebook users. Just what the world needs!
or just replicating the past?
Spend it on eugenics and you'll solve those problems.
Do something then?
The term "mini-brain" is rather deceptive because they measured in micrometers. The largest it will get is about 5mm.
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...building the perfect Congressman again, are we? Like that has worked out so well thus far...
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But then, I repeat myself...
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creimer wants you to click on his youtube channel, then click on his stupid amazon affiliate link spam on Youtube. There is nothing of value on creimer youtube channel. Only creimer click-bot goes there.
The tests we ran on Chris have shown that Chris has the intelligence of an ameba:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So, technically, he is able to conceive some kind of agenda but it will be silly or impossible to follow on a human scale.
For example, Chris had an agenda to post anything he felt like on Slashdot which did not work well because it was based on his false beliefs that he had an infinite number of karma points as he wrote here several times.
Several people here explained to Chris that karma maxed out at some level like 50 or so but Chris kept on insisting that his python script had confirmed that he had millions of karma points!
Oh well, as I wrote before: "It isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody."
For the valuable /. users that might already have read the following, please note that there is an important update.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education has invested money to buy Chris a new chair:
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Information about Christopher Dale Reimer and autistic people:
Autistic people have obsessions about things normal people don't care. For example, one of our autistic patient went haywire when he realized that there was a penny missing in his pocket change.
To calm him down, one of our educator pretended to have found it on the floor and gave a penny to him.
The autistic patient condition went even worse because he realized it wasn't the same penny!
Chris has an obsession with budgeting every penny. He doesn't understand that most people do not budget to the penny and have a flexible amount they allow for miscellaneous items.
I am Nancy Guerrero and I am Director of Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education. We use Chris' (a.k.a. creimer,cdreimer) picture in our document because he is the hardest case we have ever had to handle:
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Our artists were inspired by the low carb diet that Christopher follows scrupulously for the small lunch box and by the picture linked below for the rest. I am sure that you will notice the similarities such as the bump on the side of his chest and more:
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Please be easy on Christopher although, I am aware that some of our staff handling Chris post joke comments here and obvoiusly, the Santa Clara County Office of Education disapprove that behavior vehemently:
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But it isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody.
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Exactly Nancy,
It seems like Chris is a victim here. He keeps on reading those SEO, youtube algorithm, basically get rich quick sites. He doesn't realize that he is the fish for them since they make money off him with their own schemes. Then, he wastes his time trying to implement what those sites suggest and he ends up disturbing people.
I mean, those crooks tell Chris that h
Who's that?
eugenics is about building a master race and a slave race. unfortunately for you and me we'd be part of that inferior slave race.
They had bigger brains than us.
If you want to grow and study some human brain tissue just do that. The minute one of your experiments communicates it isn't cool with it, THEN you have an ethical problem until then projecting human feelings and ethics on lumps of meat, protein, insects, and animals is just anthromorphic nonsense hindering progress.
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How about spending money solving issues like corruption, disease and poverty?
The root cause of many social problems is too many stupid people.
The average inmate IQ is America's prisons is 89. It is even lower for violent offenders.
Smoking, obesity, and many other health issues are correlated with low intelligence.
Income differs by about $6000/yr for every 10 points above or below the mean IQ.
Better understanding of brain development is one of the most important things we can do to address these problems.
Europeans and Asians have a Neanderthal admixture. Africans do not. The correlation between a populations success and having a Neanderthal admixture is so strong that causation is very likely.
History will show the Neanderthals to have had the longest reign of any humanoids when we are gone. The more interesting questions are what will replace us or whether we'll leave enough behind for anything to replace us.
Do something then?
I am, and I have and I'm also speaking out about it!
You couldn’t just go right out and say pea-brained?
If it can think like human - it is life as we understand it?
"Better understanding of brain development is one of the most important things we can do to address these problems."
I think that's an example of what he's talking about, a tendency to look for certain kinds of solutions at the detriment of other kinds when trying to help reduce things like poverty or corruption.
"The root cause of many social problems is too many stupid people"
Stupidity isn't more present at one IQ level than another, though it does play out differently at higher and lower IQs; and knowing that, how would one even start to justify that stupidity in the higher IQs is less of a causal factor behind poverty and corruption than stupidity in the lower IQs is.
And biology likes producing individual variability, the complexity generated is an important component of progress and biological evolution, moreover the internal complexities and dynamics of social exchanges imply inclusion is a default mode; so maybe we could put a little more resources into looking at why we have trouble reducing things like our promotion of dysfunctional developmental pathways and adversarial cultural ideologies.
How do they know they are incapable of thoughts and feelings?
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how would one even start to justify that stupidity in the higher IQs is less of a causal factor behind poverty and corruption than stupidity in the lower IQs is.
Because of overwhelming evidence. Low IQ is strongly correlated with both poverty and criminality. It may not be correlated with "corruption", but if we have fewer low IQ murderers and muggers, the police can focus more on high IQ embezzlers and bribers.
Higher IQ Criminals end up in government or bribing government and probably own most every think tank in the USA. They won't allow any more resources directed at "regulation" of their criminal activities (many of which they keep on the borderline of legality... a line which they help redefine as well.)
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Lots of things are correlated, and correlation is not causation. I agree with you 100%: poverty, criminality and IQ are all correlated. I see poverty as the more likely causal factor among the three. For example, we know so much more about nutrition than we have in the past. Particularly, the importance of fats and the importance to limit simple carbs. That's a relatively recent phenomenon for that knowledge to be widespread (and it conforms to my personal observations, lest one complain that we're being played by the scientists like in the past when they pushed for high-carb, low-fat diets). In addition, I think there is a compelling argument to be made that economic conditions would predict crime from poverty, as much, if not more than vice versa.
Certainly crime predicts poverty. To some extent our way of life in the USA guarantees that. Having a criminal record hurts your job prospects, and even being arrested for the wrong thing will lose you many jobs. It sort of begs the question, though, doesn't it?
Poverty means living somewhere with a high unemployment, a lack of commerce, and, in cities, high property taxes, high cost of food, no ability to get food naturally. Poverty in rural areas is only 3.3% higher (as of 2016, per capita), and rural areas are significantly cheaper places to meet bare necessities than urban areas (that, I hope, needs source). I would think it's at least twice the price to meet basic needs in a city as in the country. Think rural West Virginia vs Chicago. In reality, it might be like 4x or worse, even in the ghetto. But, for even a 2x cost of living increase with no increase in the poverty line, rural poor only make up 3% more of their population as compared to urban poor (using the federal poverty line as a marker) is a pretty small amount. I'm suggesting that if you used a poverty measure that measured things like good schooling, good nutrition and other, more difficult, but not impossible to measure, we would find urban environments would, easily, have a higher poverty rate. I think that'd be useful research. Finally, if you're underwater in a mortgage and have no cash, you're not moving. This is more likely to be true if you are poor. Recent census data is consistent with that point and the broader point that using a fixed poverty line seems to hide the fact that being urban poor is often a much worse environment than being rural poor as officially identified. Which brings me to my next point.
I believe race is the root factor, but not in the way you're thinking. I don't know why I didn't make this point first, as I had trouble dancing around it in the last paragraph. Skipping the problem of institutionalized racism and going straight to historical racism only. Certainly, you won't argue against historical racism. Blacks have been historically discriminated against in this country from slavery until only a generation ago in some parts of the country (and, not even that in pockets). By the time society was open to giving blacks anything but a decent shake in life, they were already living in poverty in the crumbling cities. And, unlike in rural areas, nothing grows in the harsh concrete of an urban environment. After collapse of commerce leaving cities underfunded and without enough jobs, especially given that whites owned more than a proportional share of the businesses, it wasn't possible to just spin up commerce from there. People didn't have enough things of value to trade as there is far less natural resources per person. Even as the cities collapsed as the white majority left and took their businesses with them, it would have been hard to start a business in the collapsing city with a high competition for the limited resources and an unlikely shot at getting connections to somehow bring in outside resources (for example, getting a loan to start a grocery store) as the people w
The root cause of many social problems is too many stupid people.
The root cause of "too many stupid people" is more interesting. Hold on a minute, I only have a 5 second attention span, it's time to watch Ow my balls.
We'll make great pets
Now where the fuck is money in that?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Haven't you been paying the slightest attention?
The Jews are the rich bastards who will be the ones doing this.
They will exterminate all inferior races except for a few they need to keep around to press lift buttons and turn lights on and off on their holy days. Even that is too muck 'work' from them and makes their daddy angry.
Maybe you need a co-processing mini brain to do on the fly grammar checks.
more easier....wtf?
Ok, let's give you that blacks got shitty treatment in the United States. How do you explain their equally dysfunctional behavior in every other country on earth, including the ones that are, and always have been, run by blacks?
how would one even start to justify that stupidity in the higher IQs is less of a causal factor behind poverty and corruption than stupidity in the lower IQs is.
Because of overwhelming evidence. Low IQ is strongly correlated with both poverty and criminality. It may not be correlated with "corruption", but if we have fewer low IQ murderers and muggers, the police can focus more on high IQ embezzlers and bribers.
"Because of overwhelming evidence. Low IQ is strongly correlated with both poverty"
Yes, but I said how would you support the idea that there's a causal link not a correlation.
Supposing poverty is caused by marginalization and taking economic advantage of individuals with lower IQs for the benefit of individuals with higher IQs then poverty would be caused by individuals with higher IQs while still being correlated with individuals with lower IQs.
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"Supposing poverty is caused by marginalization and taking economic advantage of individuals with lower IQs for the benefit of individuals with higher IQs then poverty would be caused by individuals with higher IQs while still being correlated with individuals with lower IQs."
but it would still be solved by lower IQ people getting smarts as to not get taken advantage of by higher iq people.
"but it would still be solved by lower IQ people getting smarts as to not get taken advantage of by higher IQ people."
Yes maybe logically, but no because raising peoples IQs from lets say 70 to 120 doesn't work (or even 70 to 90), and even if you could a lot of people with high IQs can also easily be taken advantage. And maybe not being duped also has a lot to do with emotional 'reasoning'.
On getting 'smarts', 'taking candy from baby's' won't be solved by educating the 'baby', same for a lot of seniors. And in between, I'd guess everyone no matter the kind of smarts they have can be taken advantage of by other individuals with the right a kind of smarts, and this no matter the IQs of the con-person and their victim.
So I don't think a rise in peoples ability to 'not be taken advantage of' through education is a better part of a solution than reducing the degree to which we educate individuals with the idea that taking advantage of others is ok, can be deserved by the 'victim', and can even be worthy of praise.