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  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.workstoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL a human chimpanzee hybrid was possibly created in 1967English
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    20 天前

    Apparently this is just a thing China and Russia have been accusing each other of doing for decades. Like a rumor or an urban legend of sorts spread by governments to make each other look ridiculous.

    However, the fact that we keep finding out governments have always used the money and resources they exploit from their citizens for these kinds of secret crazy ass stupid sci fi experiments (in addition to the resources necessary to spread rumors and propaganda about each other), in order to test the boundaries of human existence, should tell us that it’s never really been a problem of “those people in that country” as much as it is apparently human nature to allow certain kinds of people to keep coming to power.

    Does humanity even have a reliable and affordable cure for most cancers at this point? Do we even have flying cars or robots that aren’t complete shit?

    “Oh don’t you worry about all that, I have this idea for how we can make a man that is part chimpanzee and part human.”

    Like honestly given the kinds of things we have found out decades after the fact governments actually did to other humans and sometimes their own citizens, it’s not even that hard to see how a rumor like that would be spread.

    An example of something ridiculous a government might actually attempt updated for 2025: “I have this idea for achieving immortality using AI. The level of artificial intelligence necessary to take even a baby step towards succeeding doesn’t actually exist yet, and we might just end up tearing a hole in the fabric of reality while we try, but such is the cost of greatness and being the first (and in this case if that was the ultimate outcome, obviously the last).”

    The fact that we keep allowing these same kinds of people to end up as our rulers without some kind of a global uprising is legit more surprising to me than it would be to learn that a government actually attempted to create a human chimpanzee hybrid in recent history. However, going by the source on the Wiki page, it just links to a quote apparently taken from an old Soviet news article from the 80s which is not even immediately available. What a shocker.

    There’s been blips of uprisings like the Arab spring, but there’s really never been a global movement that I’m aware of. We’ve had two world wars fighting on behalf of these kinds of people. Like accepting complete chaos and destruction to help them hold on to their power, and we’re definitely on the brink of fighting a third one. It seems like most people loathe and resent them, and they’re always replaced with somebody new, but it’s just kinda surprising humanity has never had a world war or uprising fighting against them. I know that sounds pretty “I’m 15 and this is deep,” but that’s just something that’s literally never really occurred to me.