1. If you are used to taking shortcuts, you will not be willing to follow the steps.
Everyone imagines that there is such a pill, after taking it, you can be omniscient and omnipotent, saving the process of hard and deliberate practice. I imagined that there is a medicine that can achieve a perfect body after taking it, saving sweat and muscle soreness in the gym. Because inertia is innate, but the question is, are we really going to be happier with this shortcut?
When I was playing Diablo 2 back then, only a few hundred monsters could produce a piece of useful equipment, so after a few hours of fighting to get a golden or dark gold piece of equipment, I was very happy for a long time, and suddenly one day I played it in the computer room. In a version of the game, every time a monster was beaten, a rare piece of equipment would be dropped, and I was very happy at the time. But after two hours, I suddenly lost the motivation to play, and I had all the equipment I wanted, and it was completely pointless to continue playing. Therefore, getting what you want too easily is not entirely a kind of happiness, it may be a curse, and the price is to consume your love and cherishing of life.
So if this kind of pill exists, even if it has no side effects, it will eventually become a drug that kills people's will. It may end up being the scene of the title, where the protagonist jumps off the building because he has no love for life.
Second, how different can people be?
I really like Liu Cixin's novel "Supporting the Earth", which tells a story that with the advancement of science, humans can edit their genes to become more intelligent, and gain an IQ similar to the male protagonist in the movie who takes drugs, and then changes. Get everything. However, this kind of gene editing has two side effects. One is that the price is very expensive, and each upgrade has to pay a lot of money; the second is that this kind of gene editing can be accumulated to achieve a closed-loop effect. If you have money, you can pay the most expensive gene editing fee, and then gain an advantage over others in terms of wealth. This advantage allows you to get more money to upgrade your genes. The end result is that the world's wealth goes to one person Concentration - end-of-life, all others are slaves.
Studies have shown that the genetic difference between humans and gorillas is no more than 1%, and the result of this gene editing can produce 10% of the genetic difference. By that time, will the rich and the poor still be the same species?
So, I like the setting of the movie, but not the ending.
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