singularity scratchpad

- Kurzweil: Turning off the fat insulin receptor gene, for example, enabled animals to eat as much as they want and remain slim and get the health benefits of being slim
- Kurzweil: And we have new forms of gene therapy that allow us to add new genes to adults
- Kurzweil: The major religions emerged in prescientific times. There is still wisdom there but we need to consider that a major motivation was rationalizing death as a good thing.