I love the story of the father who raised his son on Klingon until it became too awkward for modern usage.
Thought that would be a fun experiment on my child. Don’t know much Klingon though.
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Put a hundred toddlers on an island. Leave a few older children that will disappear a few years later that are taught to fish/hunt/gather. See what kind of language develops, or what kind of civilization. How many survive?
It is VERY unethical. Add variables to other islands, such as the amount of children, and what you teach them.
You know there was a mad king who tried to do the same?
Babies just end up dying if not talked to. He also wanted to figure out the language of gods
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I always found the stories of human/chimp hybrids fascinating.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee
https://bigthink.com/the-past/soviet-human-ape-super-warriors-humanzee-ivanov/
Unproven, but theoretically as possible as horse/donkey, zebra/horse, or lion/tiger.
I find those rats with the NOVA1 gene fascinating. I wonder what would happen if we downright tried to give rats human-level intelligence? They are more empathetic than humans I hear, they would make the perfect replacement for our species!
And another thing I would like to try, is to find a really big person, and see how far they can swallow me feet-first, before they run into problems, or one of us is injured.
I hope you cut your toenails first!
That said, I doubt anyone would have an oesophagus wide enough to accommodate anything bigger than a hand, so you might need to choose a different host species and potentially, orifice.
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How can rats have human level intelligence, if we as humans have to essentially consume the whole bodyweight of a rat daily, just to sustain our very energy demanding brains.
Good point. We should try something far longer lived, but good at surviving. Crocodiles? Nah...too much work to get them intelligent. Octopuses maybe?
EDIT: Octopi just to avoid the annoying corrections.
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Hypothesis: Conservatives will refuse to believe contradicting facts regardless of punishment.
Experiment: Use increasingly painful stimulus for negative reinforcement when subjects espouse harmful views, ie racism.
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Recreate the setup of Training Day and see how many people become dirty cops because they get finessed by Denzel Washington
Separate a child from society. Like place them into a void with no human culture. And see what they think later on.
Hypothetically. I'd see if I could take someone and bring them into a Truman show world without them knowing.
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Remove every unhealthy person and/or gene modify existing ones to eliminate every allergy orbodily defect caused by gene defect.
Also gene modify so that theres no mental detorioration and humans die just because they are old and the nody can't keep up with maintenance.
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Throwing somebody straight into lava in a volcano. Would be interesting to see what happens.
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