Hello, Obligatory shilling. I wrote for The Critic about the uses and abuses of nostalgia, for UnHerd about right-wing humour and for my Substack subscribers about “the Great Replacement”. Counterfeit kitsch. Erik Hoel laments the development of AI “art”
"if it works who do you think is going to win in terms of societal competition, people with genetic enhancement or people without it?" It's a crapshoot, you just don't know, there are other factors besides genetic ones which influence things - and then there's the role of consciousness - and if that *isn't* a product of brain chemistry, then the results of genetic manipulations are anyone's guess.
So good. Usual frenetic eclecticism. Great start to the week. Kenneth Clark? Yes. Superaesthete father of the obnoxious Allan Clark MP. Families! I am feeling much better now, Ben. Long Covid has been tamed (not NHS, sadly, but a private guy who took my health more personally seriously). Have a fine week. Terry 🙏💪
"if it works who do you think is going to win in terms of societal competition, people with genetic enhancement or people without it?" It's a crapshoot, you just don't know, there are other factors besides genetic ones which influence things - and then there's the role of consciousness - and if that *isn't* a product of brain chemistry, then the results of genetic manipulations are anyone's guess.
So good. Usual frenetic eclecticism. Great start to the week. Kenneth Clark? Yes. Superaesthete father of the obnoxious Allan Clark MP. Families! I am feeling much better now, Ben. Long Covid has been tamed (not NHS, sadly, but a private guy who took my health more personally seriously). Have a fine week. Terry 🙏💪