Hypothetically. I'd see if I could take someone and bring them into a Truman show world without them knowing.
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Actually just stop allowing anyone with "defective" genes to reproduce.
I am fully I wouldnt exist in this hypothetical world (-11 vision in both eyes), but I would be curious what would happen if we only ever let perfectly healthy people with no genetic defects have kids.
Like would it eventually just become a perfect world where nobody needs glasses or asthma inhalers? Or would we die off because not enough genetically "perfect" people exist to make this plan work?
As a bundle of recessive genes, I definitely wouldn't meet the Gattaca standard. :)
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I love the story of the father who raised his son on Klingon until it became too awkward for modern usage.
Thought that would be a fun experiment on my child. Don’t know much Klingon though.
Throwing somebody straight into lava in a volcano. Would be interesting to see what happens.
Leidenfrost probably
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Trolling against some lemmy mods? (surely one of the most hazardous things to to)
I'd be really curious about the Tarzan experiment, having a human infant raised by apes.
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How many billionaires need to be publicly executed to fix the usa political system.
Title says unethical
More than just the ones in America, I'd reckon.
Making chimeras sounds cool as shit. What's even unethical about it? Why can't I have an army of beavermen to dam the world's waterways unless my ransom demands are met?
Ok, I think I see where the unethical part lies...
Yeah it’s beaverPEOPLE, not beaverMEN. Get with the times!
I’m a beaver man myself. Pubes are sexy.
Making a lot of clones of myself, raising them all differently, and seeing how many of them turn out in the same way as me.
Not the same, but your comment reminded me of an upcoming game I want to try The Alters
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Agreed, it's an interesting thing to think about at least. The nature vs nurture debate is practically as old as time itself but it feels like we're no closer to an answer outside of "it's a bit of both." But how much?
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I find those rats with the NOVA1 gene fascinating. I wonder what would happen if we downright tried to give rats human-level intelligence? They are more empathetic than humans I hear, they would make the perfect replacement for our species!
And another thing I would like to try, is to find a really big person, and see how far they can swallow me feet-first, before they run into problems, or one of us is injured.
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I'd like to see if we can build hybrid computer systems using cultured animal tissue (like Cephalopod or maybe GMO human / Cephalopod), basically grown onto an array of tiny wires. Push sensory information through the tiny wires and see if the lump of cells can learn. If it does, put it in a Eva. Or a butler robot. Or a robot vaccuum.
Idk. Its an idea for a scifi novel I've had. Some company does this and what people don't realize is the supposedly autonomous systems making their lives easier are fully conscious but live tortured existences. It would get more and more lovecraftian as the cephalopod hybrids some how take over (I was thinking maybe cancer? or networked mind) and start chopping everyone to bits. Maybe they try and eat them but they have no mouth, like how an octopus arm when detach will hunt and try to feed a non-existent mouth.
I think that's a black mirror episode (what dystopian shenanigan isn't, nowadays?) , something like they copied your mind digitally and then (cruelly) trained the copy to become your perfect digital assistant.
Didnt someone get doom to run on living cells?
Yeah see, but I wanna get live cells running on doom.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8DnoOOgYxck&pp=ygUaUnVubmluZyBkb29tIG9uIGxpdmUgY2VsbHM%3D
Sorry to disappoint ;/
I always found the stories of human/chimp hybrids fascinating.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee
https://bigthink.com/the-past/soviet-human-ape-super-warriors-humanzee-ivanov/
Unproven, but theoretically as possible as horse/donkey, zebra/horse, or lion/tiger.