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The problem with all of these solutions is, they're risky on an existential scale. Mightn't it be easier to learn to live with the enemy you've got than getting humanity obliterated by a genuinely superior genetically augmented Master Race, a superplague or in your proposal, killer robots? The...

The thing about supersoldiers is, if you've got the tech to make them, you've got the tech to make them redundant. "A human but stronger and more durable" in a conflict fought with hyperadvanced biotech would be equivalent to a cavalry charge in gasmasks during the first world war, a futile...

Testimony Before an Emergency Session of The Naval Cephalopod Command by Bo Kaier? Although technically that was solipsistic uplifted squids rather than robots.

The problem with mental augmentations from the perspective of any leader is, how long until the new superintelligences decide they could do a better job leading society than you? Even if they're objectively right, you're still out of power.

• Add the ability to naturally biosynthesize Vitamin C. Plenty of other mammals can do it, humans aren't one of them. • The uterine lining is reabsorbed rather than shed on a monthly basis. Again, plenty of other mammals can do it. • Flip the retina. As-is, the light-sensitive cells are at the...

Before the age of nuclear MAD, when the leaders of Major Player countries feared conquest by foreigners and were therefore forced to minmax their own country's capabilities to the best of the ability, regardless of the increased risk to themselves, it'd mean increased intelligence, followed by...