4/8/2024
While things are getting better a lot of things are still a trainwreck on my end.
While my cat has responded to the thyroid medication, she can’t take it as a pill which is the prime reason for all of her side effects (including being vomity as all hell)
So the mighty 15 year old furball is going to be getting a topical gel in her ears, and is on anti-nausea medication and a reduced dose of the pills until she can get on the gel.
That’s one thing that’s getting better…on the other hand, the day after I posted my message about things going on pause, an elderly family member banged themselves up in a fall and is still recovering.
So we are still in wait and see mode over here. When we know more, you’ll know more. 🙁
*Spoiler* Nope. There isn’t anything in the programming of it to ‘correct’ sexual orientation. Though, if you did have a brain aneurysm waiting to pop, it would fix that.
Precisely. How does it define “wrong”? For instance, I take medication, Effexor, to help with social anxiety and depression. If something were to permanently tweak my brain chemistry so I didn’t have to, I could get behind that.
But it would still change who I am. I can imagine other “wrongs” that, “righted”, might change people for bad as well as good.
It would tweak brain chemistry if needed, it would also heal any currently broken bones if they were there, not too mention any instances of uncontrolled cellular growth.
Other effects are not always predictable. Hell, Ian went through a rapid growth spurt of about 6 inches in height within two weeks time.
That underlies the problem with bio-nanotech and with the inherent design bias of the engineers and scientists behind the technology. iow, ‘normal’ is a relative and subjective state of mind. What they think is ‘normal’ won’t match your ideas of what is ‘normal.’ (Think: ‘Happy, little mind-controlled bio-robots,’ here.)
Regardless of what many engineers and scientists might claim to the contrary, a lifetime of experience and philosophy goes into each item or product they design and produce. (see also: confirmation bias, ‘echo chambers,’ etc.)
In my particular case, returning me to my original condition would mean heart surgery – again. In my case the cure could be worse than the disease. Of course, I don’t have a broken neck with potential paralysis. Pick your lesser evil and go with it.
Any defects that were detected in the body (like something that caused you to need heart surgery) would be ‘corrected’ i.e. you would’ve never need it in the first place.
It would also correct cases of intellectual disability as well. The whole programming behind Cobalt was for it to optimize the person who would be using it, so they could use it at at least it’s nominal potential.
I wish I did. Jai has been sick with stuff for a while, plus getting buried with a nasty work schedule. Right now, there are approximately 5-6 comics in the pipeline for it that are about 85-90% done, they just need to be polished up and went with. When that’ll happen, I wish I knew. 🙁
But it would still change who I am. I can imagine other “wrongs” that, “righted”, might change people for bad as well as good.
Other effects are not always predictable. Hell, Ian went through a rapid growth spurt of about 6 inches in height within two weeks time.
Regardless of what many engineers and scientists might claim to the contrary, a lifetime of experience and philosophy goes into each item or product they design and produce. (see also: confirmation bias, ‘echo chambers,’ etc.)
Because it’s coming.
It would also correct cases of intellectual disability as well. The whole programming behind Cobalt was for it to optimize the person who would be using it, so they could use it at at least it’s nominal potential.