From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 01:06:10 MDT
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:30:21PM -0400, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Anders Sandberg wrote:
> >United States Patent 6,485,773
> >
> >A truly transhuman patent (mentioned in last Scientific American):
> >improving the taste of male ejaculate. After all, why just settle for
> >the natural flavor? Transhumanism is about improving *all* areas of
> >human life, taboos be damned.
> >
> >http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,485,773.WKU.&OS=PN/6,485,773&RS=PN/6,485,773@32436
>
> Of *all* the damn webcomics life could imitate, it started imitating
> Sexy Losers. I hope this isn't the start of a trend.
It could have been www.choppingblock.org instead :-)
In general this patent got me thinking about other improvements.
After all, there are many other aspects of the body that could be
made to taste and smell better. We already spend a lot of money on
this, so why not get to the root of the problem? One approach is to
use modified microflora, another to add chemicals that make body
fluids or tissue more aromatic and a third of course to use gene
therapy to make cells produce new and interesting flavor compounds.
Pheromones are so old-fashioned!
As Dib once exclaimed, "I'm... delicious!"
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