h a l f b a k e r yIt might be better to just get another gerbil.
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let other people get your kicks for you (genetic cosimilars)
Taylor Swift uses a gene database to find the people most similar to her, then gives them grants to try new things she thinks might be fun. If it is actually fun, then she tries it. One prefers that mathematical similarities of brain characteristics contribute to similarity of fun | |
Taylor swift uses a gene database to find the people
most
similar to her, then gives them grants to try new things
she
thinks might be fun, with the idea that people of high
similarity might like similar things.
If the activity is actually fun, then she tries it.
This is similar to
the way monozygotic twins are
measured as
often have strongly similar liking and interests.
Soon, rich people will find their genetic cosimilars and
then
pay them to get their kicks for them, and then try the
really
fun stuff.
N.B. If you go for the genetic cosimilar with the most
similar neurotransmitter genetics then you can have
them go out on romantic dates, and then date the
people they found to be unusually wonderful. This has
the important effect of solving Taylor Swift's dating life.
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Great great grandson of Jonathan Swift. |
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The Onion reports that she has 280 million dollars |
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// she has 280 million dollars // |
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Sneaking back to the technology, I think it would be fun to
send a few of my genetic cosimilars to a few hundred
meetup.com meetings to find out which I might like. |
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Given that you will be equally similar, overall, to every human being on the planet, which particular genes will you be considering? |
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Up until now, I thought that Taylor Swift was the name of
one of Scientology's secret planets. |
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[mb] monozygotic twins have been published as having
notably similar tastes, so that gets around the existing
massive similarities. Neurotransmitter genetics might be a
good start for finding identical matches to mental or
emotional experiences of fun. |
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Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People call say 'beware doll, you're bound to fall'
You thought they were all kidding you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hanging out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ahh you've gone to the finest schools, alright Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street
And now you're gonna have to get used to it
You say you never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be on your own, with no direction home
A complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ah you never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discovered that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To have on your own, with no direction home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
Ahh princess on a steeple and all the pretty people
They're all drinking, thinking that they've got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you better take your diamond ring, you better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him he calls you, you can't refuse
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you've got no secrets to conceal
How does it feel, ah how does it feel?
To be on your own, with no direction home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone |
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//monozygotic twins have been published as having notably similar tastes, so that gets around the existing massive similarities// |
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No, it doesn't. If I pick two random people in a crowd, they will share (let's say) between 4,500,000 and 5,500,000 SNPs. (That's just a guesstimate based on the number of SNPs and the frequencies of major alleles.) That will be true for _any_ two people, other than siblings (who will share maybe twice as many SNPs) and identical twins (who will share _almost_ all SNPs). |
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There may be 500,000 SNPs that are relevant to brain development, and we don't even know which of the half-million-or-so SNPs those are. Even if we did, two unrelated individuals will share maybe 230,000 - 270,000 of them. Very few unrelated people will share more than, say, 300,000 or fewer than 200,000. |
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There may be 5000 SNPs that are especially relevant to which activities you enjoy. If we knew which ones they were, then we might be able to find individuals sharing 3000 such SNPs instead of the average 2500. But we _don't_ know which ones they are, for the most part. |
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In the absence of sufficient knowledge, and given the large numbers of SNPs involved, a far better approach is to send a brother or child out to test things. You will share more SNPs with them than with any unrelated individual you are likely to find. |
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