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NancyLebovitz comments on Neo-reactionaries, why are you neo-reactionary? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 November 2014 08:32:56AM *  2 points [-]

Or gender (if any) will come to mean something very different from what we're used to. Once humanity starts bioengineering itself, the range of possibility opens up tremendously.

You mean there are people who don't just shape-shift their apparent sex depending on the precise situational combination of their current mood and what they want to signal? Goddamn you lot are weirdos ;-).

Although the conservation-of-mass issue gets awkward: you can either be a scrawny male but a healthy-looking female or a healthy-looking male and a rather overweight female, or be kinda awkwardly lithe in either form. Or you can go to the bathroom and store the extra unwanted mass when female, but really, there's only so much biological nanotechnology can do against basic physics.

(EDIT: Yes, I did make this up on the bus one day when thinking of things future people might consider good ideas that we'd consider unutterably bizarre, and was indeed waiting for an opportunity to post it ;-).)

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 November 2014 12:56:50PM 2 points [-]

One possibility is that body composition becomes less important because it's so easily changed. At that tech level, it probably doesn't have any health implications.

Height might be less significant.

Instead of more mass to be a larger male, how about less density?

Comment author: [deleted] 19 November 2014 02:43:50PM 2 points [-]

Height and density. I'm a moron. brb, retuning bodily nanomachines.