QUOTE : The Soviets were not 50% right, they were entirely wrong. They weren’t<br />quantitatively wrong about the amount of variance due to the environment,<br />they were qualitatively wrong about what environmental manipulations<br />could do in the face of built-in universal human machinery. Having said this,<br />though, I now feel no particular impulse to vote Republican.<br />Also, it’s quite possible that someday you could create perfectly unselfish<br />people… if you used sufficiently advanced neurosurgery, drugs, and/or<br />brain-computer interfaces to engineer their brains into a new state that no<br />current human brain occupies. Whether or not this is in fact possible isn’t<br />something that ideology gets to decide. The reasoning errors of past<br />communists can’t prohibit any particular future technological advance from<br />being possible or practical. Having said that, I feel no particular impulse to<br />turn “liberal.