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tl:dr :

Do my son's engineered superpowers make him more human, or less?

The more different you are, the more valuable you become.

My particular area of research and development is cognitive neuroprosthetics: devices that directly interface with the brain to improve our memory, attention, emotion, and much more.

How can we respect someone's humanness while also giving them the choice to become more like the majority of humans?

In a world that values difference, untypical humans paired with neuroprosthetics might become even more powerful than fully abled ones.

If these kinds of augmentations can lift them above the crowd, soon everyone will want to be more than human.

It's seductively easy to imagine a world in which we're a little smarter or a bit more creative, in which our kids have the latest advantage.

That's the price you gotta make when you want to sell cheap cars

smart move now they can get more people into Tesla's

tl:dr This underscores the immense challenge of achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030, says a new edition of the annual The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report released today.

"Our actions to tackle these troubling trends will have to be bolder, not only in scale but also in terms of multisectoral collaboration," the heads of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the UN Children's Fund, the World Food Programme and the World Health Organization urged in their joint foreword to the report.

People experiencing moderate food insecurity face uncertainties about their ability to obtain food and have had to reduce the quality and/or quantity of food they eat to get by.

This calls for a profound transformation of food systems to provide sustainably-produced healthy diets for a growing world population.