Moral Bioenhancements Part One

than intended. So we decided to split this up for you, divide right down the middle where we're gonna have half of our conversation in this episode and then continue with the second half in the next episode. Yeah, we got something excited to talk about, guys, something I'm so excited about. You know, we talk all about trans humanism and and bio enhancements. We've talked about it so many times in

this episode. Are not on this episode on the series, like the idea of of taking humans and making them better. You know you're staring at me blankly, Jim, I'm listening. Yes, okay, So we want to make them better by giving them claws, by giving them sharp clamps, well, clamps with claws on them, Okay, clamps, yes, of course, of course. Wings, I mean humans need wings. Generally I can eat like thirty or forty wings all

by myself. Yeah. So we've done an episode called one to Our Our two cents on More Senses, which was all about how we might be able to use technology to expand our our ability to sense stuff around us. Right, So we've talked about how to enhance ourselves that way. We've explored how bio enhancements presents some pretty difficult ethical questions.

I remember we used to talk about is it ethical, say an athlete wants to just cut their healthy legs off to get fake legs, And that's not the right word, not fake legs, prosthetic legs that might be better than the legs he or she was born with. Right, And then also just on the on the other side of it, is it ethical for a doctor to perform such a procedure? Like Like, these are tricky questions that we don't have

the answers to. But instead of looking at those, I thought we could actually look at a related but slightly more focused topic, the concept of moral bio enhancements. Yes,

instead of making humans better, we make them better. Yes, Instead of better at clamping and better at clawing and running and flying, make make them better at not stealing out of the donation box, right right, all the all the little petty things that you know, add up at the day like you you're you're from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed, all those little things that irritate you. Because if people were just decent like you were decent, everyone would get along

much better, share making people less aggressive and more altruistic. Yeah, like like you know if they would, If people would just let you into that lane of traffic, then everything would move much more smoothly, works like a zipper. People first one car from one lane and then one from the next. But of course that's not how it works because jerk faces are out there. But what if we could have a little switch that said jerk face off and everyone was a non jerk face. Well, that's thank

YouTube a lot more enjoyable. Yes, the comments sections would be so much different. Although our our our commenters are really very lovely. Yes, we're not talking about you guys. No, No, it's you guys are beautiful. It's not you, it's those other jerk faces. Uh. We So we wanted to talk about this concept of moral bio enhancements. Now to talk about that, we first have to just discuss what is

morality in the first place. Uh, And it's a tricky thing, right, It's it's basically knowing the difference between right and wrong, if you want to be super super general about Yeah, but that that in itself is is Uh, it's deceptive in its simplicity, right. Well, Yeah, we generally think it describes a certain type of cognition and behavior, right, that there is a decision making process and that happens in the brain, or certain types of reactions to stimuli that

we class under morality. And there there are a lot of different types of morality, right, Like, there are things that some people consider moral dilemmas that other people would not even categorize as moral questions. For example, Uh, generally people almost universally think of things like not causing harm to others and making things fair. Those are pretty universal

moral principles. But there are also things like, uh, certain types of ideas about purity, ideas about loyalty and obeying authority, and things that people in some places and and some individuals think of as very important moral issues and other people don't even categorize as moral. Right, So one might ask where did this whole concept of morality come from? Uh. There are a couple of law suffers that I was reading about and their views on the subject, specifically because

they are advocates for moral bio enhancements. We'll get to that in a second. Those philosophers are Julian Savolescu and ingmar Person. They argue that morality arose out of the way that we humans would group together, way way way back, right, you know, although to the point where we were just tiny social groups of humans originally traveling together and then eventually settling down and trying to create like an actual

uh settlement. I guess. So the theory there is that evolutionarily there's a survival advantage to group behavior, that you you have a better chance of passing on your genes if you work together with others, and you work together

with others better if you behave well. Yes, that's essentially the perspective saying that morality is that sense that makes us feel badly when we cause harm to other people, and to a lesser extent, when we allow someone to come to harm not through our direct action but through our inaction and specifically within our social group. So we

feel worse if we're directly responsible for that harm. Morality and causation are linked, according to their argument, and they also say that the further out you get from a social group, the less badly you would feel about harming someone so so so. Yeah, So if I, if I had the chance to to to through an action, do something mean to to you guys, yeah I might. I might feel pretty bad about it if it was to someone in the next office over right, because you don't

know that person. Yeah. Yeah. This is also kind of coming into something that I used to read about, I think in The Straight Dope, where Cecil Adams argued that essentially every group's name for themselves tends to mean the people, and then then everyone's name for everyone else's those godless heathens over there, right, So, so that that's an illustration of this idea right there, that other group of people are not within the social group, and so therefore you

don't feel that sense of of responsibility and accountability, or or even if you feel responsible, you don't feel badly about being responsible for their for anything negative happening to them. Well, a much simpler way to think about this, even is in your day to day life, you don't you treat other people in traffic a way that you would not treat your close friends and family members? What depends on

what they're doing in traffic. According to everyone I know, I cut off everybody in conversation, So apparently I'm just I'm talking about a morally normal person. That's fair, that's fair, lawful, evil schemer, it's more neutral evil, but thank you. So, as our world has grown, according to these philosophers, we've become members of a global community, and those natural inclinations aren't sufficient to keep things civil because the world is

just too big. There are too many people, and social groups are too fragmented for us sen some morality to compensate. So they point out three things that have come as a result of this. They say that, as as a group, human beings have become more loss of verse, meaning that we try to protect ourselves against loss rather than pursue improvement. So rather than say, hey, we can work to make things better, we say, hey, let's make sure things don't

get worse. This would manifest as a status quo bias. Yes, yeah, we just don't want things to change, right, or at least we don't. Things are pretty lousy I don't want them to get worse than they are now, like that kind of idea. Also that we focus mostly on our

immediate social group and the immediate future. So if someone is outside your social group, you're less likely to be concerned for their well being, and you may also view any offense they commit as being greater than you would feel if someone within your social group had done the same thing. So you you judge people by their actions, not just on the actions alone, but whether or not there within our particular social group. E judge outsiders more harshly, exactly.

And uh, you know, I think it's also interesting that they point out the immediate future problem, because that's something else that as just sort of an armchair observer, you could argue. You see throughout lots of different aspects of life where organizations you may feel like an organization is making decisions that are for short term benefit but will

be a detriment in the long term. Well, according to these philosophers, that's an issue that's just it goes all the way down to the way you treat your your immediate friends and family. Uh that it's just innate and it's something that we have to work to get past, And they also say that we feel less responsible if we're part of a large group of people causing a negative outcome for someone else, then we would if it

were on an individual basis. So, in other words, if I were to act personally in a way that caused Lauren harm, I would feel very badly about it, if I Yes, yes, I'm offended that you think otherwise if I were if I were part of a large group of people who caused harm to Laura, and I'd probably feel badly about it. But maybe not I I because well, it was the group diffusion of the responsibility. Yes, I guess, I mean it was really Josh Clark study in the

first place. And that guy man that Josh, what a jerk face he is. There's a similar phenomenon with reluctance to help by people in large groups. You know, if you're the only person around to help somebody who's having some kind of who needs help, you're probably more likely to do it than if there are a whole bunch of people standing around and you're just waiting for somebody

else to do something. Yeah, that that I like. There's some folks I've listened to on another podcast who kind of casually referred to that as someone else is smarter than I am. Right, the idea that there's someone else who is more capable of handling that situation than you are.

Therefore you should hold back because you're afraid of making the situation even worse, when the reality often is someone needs to start to act as soon as possible, and you're not likely to make it worse, but through an action, you're making it worse. Actually sounds kind of similar to the status quo bias, very afraid to change things. So because of these uh issues, the two philosophers are in favor of the idea of moral bio enhancements. And we've

mentioned that term several times. I guess it's time to talk about what the heck they are. Okay, So, the basic picture of a moral bio enhancement is number one doesn't exist yet, right, or well, you might say that in some very primitive ways, something kind of like a moral bio enhancement could exist, maybe in some sort of drug form, not in a very precise or advanced way, right, Not in a way where it would be uh, you know,

applicable to large populations. Certainly not And we're not really using those as therapies right now, right, Yeah, But of course the second thing is is it well, it would be some kind of alteration or modification, So maybe a drug therapy, of physical therapy, of some kind of surgery and implant would be something you can do to your body, to your brain specifically that either guides you or forces

you to make moral decisions and exhibit moral behavior. You could imagine this as anything from sort of a positive reinforcement where you your body has a reward system for every time you make a decision that is quote unquote moral, as is as has been determined by whomever has designed this bio enhancement, like like a like a little like oh, like like that that good decision just tasted like chocolate

a little bit, yeah, sort of sort of thing. Or it could be imagine if morality felt as good as eating food or having sex or other things that that give you rewards in the brain, right. Or it could be an aversion approach where choosing the bad thing, the immoral choice, would make you feel much worse than you would otherwise, like in Buffy the Vampire Slayer when the initiative puts that chip in Spike's head and every time he tries to attack somebody, he he gets a little

like like instant migraine. Yeah, I've never heard about that. It's where we learn in the Buffy verse that a computer chip is equivalent equivalent to a human soul. I have no problem with that particular part of their mythology. So that's a good one. Another one would be a work being problematic. Yes. Another one would be a clockwork

orange yes, yes, clock regards the Ludovico treatment. Yes. So the very simple explanation is the main character is a sociopathic criminal teenager who loves to commit ultra violence against random people, and he gets sent to prison and subjected to this therapy where he's made to watch films of violent and lawless behavior and meanwhile is given some kind of I don't know, some kind of drug that makes him feel horrible and establishes this association in his brain,

right right. And we'll talk a little bit more about that towards the end of this episode, because it does come into play again. But I do bet some of you out there thinking, wait a minute, moral bio enhancement. But that couldn't happen. We couldn't do that with technology and I want to say, let's consider Okay, so first of all, I think we should all agree morality is

located in the brain. Whatever morality is, it's something that's going on in the nervous system, definitely, pretty much entirely in the brain, a chemical and physical process probably, yes, and for this reason can be altered by changes to the brain. So there's just overwhelming evidence that moral behavior is controlled by this complex set of factors in the brain, something that was referred to in one scientific review that

I read as a neuro moral network. And that review was by Mario F. Mendez and it's called the Neurobiology of Moral Behavior Review and Neuropsychiatric Implications in CNS Spectrums two thousand line. And so this neuro moral network, assuming it exists, there is some kind of network of processes in the brain controlling morality. Whatever that is. We can

call it in euro moral network. You know, if it's not exactly the brain locations that are implicated so far in euroscience, sure, sure, it's a it's a variable term. At this point, we're saying like we're using this term to describe something we do not fully understand or can fully identify, or even really vaguely understand. Honestly, well, we do know some things about it, and I want to I want to say what those are. So we do think that's responsible for a system of emotions and drives

that guide and motivate our moral decisions. And in a lot of ways, if you look at what's going on in the brain when people are making moral decisions, there seem to be social drives at work. So we have parts of the brain that respond to social situations and give us cues about how to, you know, act in a group or act in relationship to other people. And there are emotional feelings that are generated that act as sort of like a sort of like cattle prod to

make us do something. So some areas of the brain that are involved in morality are already known. For example, Mendez gives the gives the example that a major area implicated in response to moral dilemmas is the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and it's connected regions, especially on the right side of the brain, one of my favorite regions of the brain. Uh, there are that this would also implicate the adjacent orbitofrontal plus of ventrolateral cortex. I'm sorry to just be saying

these names, but we should list what they are. The AMYG delay and the Dorso lateral prefrontal cortex, also known as the bad neighborhood of the brain. Now, these are not the only areas of the brain that would be involved in moral moral dilemmas, moral reasoning, and moral behavior, but these are some of the main ones that have

been identified. And most of this has been learned through f m r I research, which usually looks something like this US You put a person in an fMRI machine and this tracks activity in different parts of the brain

in real time based on blood flow. This is often used to try to figure out what part of the brain is somebody using when given a certain type of stimulus, and the stimulus in this case would be For example, you present people with moral dilemmas, you say, would it be wrong to play soccer with a human head as the ball? Would it be moral to kill a healthy man so his organs could be donated to hospital patients who need them. Or you show people quote morally salient photos.

So you might show people photographs of very bad things happening to people and say like this good or bad? Getting close to that clock wreck, orange treatment, except, of course, not trying to create an aversion therapy in the process. Right, They're just trying to understand what parts of the brain are you using when we make you think about stuff. Let's see what happens when we take the puppy a

exactly So. So, these neural factors that are controlling moral be behavior are physical, and they can be modified chemically or mechanically. One example is acquired sociopathy from brain lesions or changes in moral behavior linked to fronto temporal dementia or f t D. These are examples we know of where you make a change to somebody's brain and their moral behavior changes. So if you suffer a certain type of head injury seemingly out of nowhere, you might become

a pathological liar who can't stop shoplifting. Right, And it's not that you know that, Uh, you have just decided, well, after I had a near miss with death, I'm just gonna start taking stuff because the world owes me no. In other words, that would explain YouTube comments go ahead, No, Well, there there are faculties in the brain that are involved in moral reasoning and moral responses, and injury or damage to the brain can cause major changes in how this

decision making happens, right, right, And and I mean again, this is where we we look at this as evidence that morality has ultimately, uh its source within the gray matter that's in our skulls. I've seen some people argue otherwise, saying that they thought that that was too simplistic. But when you look at the evidence of people who have suffered some form of condition or injury and there thereafter their morality has changed significantly, it becomes pretty compelling evidence

to suggest that morality does have its seat in the brain. Well, now I do want to back up and and give a shout out to those critics you just mentioned, because they might have a point, not that it's not based in the brain, but that morality maybe based in in the brain in a way that is so generalized and complex that it would be difficult to modify it with precision changes to certain parts of the brain. Uh. And so that is another thing though, But the general principle

I think is very true. If you can change people's moral behavior and change the moral salience of events to people's brains through accidental changes like injuries and illness, you can, in principle also change it with intentional modifications. It's just a question of could we actually figure out what those modifications should be, And the answer might be no, right right, could we figure out those modifications to an extent where

we actually get the outcome we desire? Right? Well, anything having to do with the brain is is like this. We've probably said twenty eight million times on this show that the brain is it's really quite a complicated thing, and we still know so little about exactly what's going on in there despite our best intentions over the past

sixty or seventy years. UM. Some of the areas that are currently being investigated into how we might go about doing this, or areas that show promise, I should say, rather are stuff like like psychopharmaceuticals UM, you know, using drugs to to do stuff to the brain like UM, like a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors s s R E s UM. There's research that indicates that serotonin may play

a role in reducing reactive or or impulsive aggression. UM. So therefore treatment with s SR eyes might induce an aversion to harming others. You know that Just as a side note that brings up another thing we should note is that there are also different processes that produce moral behavior you mentioned, yeah, yeah, and impulsive aggression deliberate. Yeah. So you could have somebody who thinks about murdering somebody and they come up with a plan and they go

and do it. Does a minority report territory here, right, Versus somebody who just gets into an argument with somebody and they can't control their flare up of emotions they get angry, yeah, and they kill somebody. Both result in homicide. But these are very they apparently at least are very different things happening in the brain. So that's something that

we should also be cognizant of absolutely. And uh. And along along that that deliberate aggression kind of line, there's there's another class of drugs, neoprin reuptake inhibitors that have been studied in relation to moral behavior and and in relation to uh, controlling one's own actions, um to not going out and doing that thing that you thought to do that is actually kind of crappy, deliberate decision, deliberate

decision making, yeah, um uh. And and there's uh back back to serotonin though that there are a couple studies in which, um, some subjects were given citalopram and then asked to to to think through hypothetical scenarios or to play an economic game. UM. A couple different studies here, and the subjects who were on the S s R I were less likely in the hypothetical scenarios to say that it's okay to harm one person for the good of a group. That was weird weird outcome, um and

and uh. In terms of the economic game, the people on S s R S were less likely to UM to penalize people who were behaving unfairly towards them in the game. So, I mean these present interesting moral dilemmas that we could all think about, right, Like, It's not just like they make you more likely to kill somebody, but they might modify your your opinion on a question

that is morally debatable. Yeah, yeah, because I think that that's one of the classic moral debates of whether, um, whether it's okay to sacrifice one person for the good of a group. In fact, that it was what I brought up, can you kill a healthy guy to take all his organs to give to ten different people who need them? Right? And of course it's it's connected to

the trolley problem. Which we've talked about previously, especially in regards to self driving cars, like these are shoes that have been talked about in various incarnations for about as long as we've had philosophy, and the fact that we don't have a definitive answer tells us that these are

complicated issues. And maybe one of the reasons why some people say moral bio enhancements are tricky thing to look into because if they seem to simplify something that humans over the course of more than a thousand years haven't been able to come to a conclusion too, maybe it's

a little too simplistic. Yeah, Yeah, other other areas that that could be potentially looked at in terms of therapies and treatments that were currently capable of brain stimulation, because we we've talked on the show before about how electrical stimulation and and or electromagnetic stimulation are our treatments for for very severe cases of depression basically because they change the levels of some of your brain chemicals like serotonin or nor epinephrin um for for reasons that science isn't

really sure about. Yeah, sometimes we do we do therapies without really in seeing that they have an effect without really understanding what the mechanism is of that, and it, uh, it concerns us a little bit, but worked, let's keep going. Usually usually it means we're going to keep looking into

this to figure out why it worked. But in the meantime it's working, so and and and in those cases for for people for whom drugs don't work, it's it's a lifesaver and it's a it's an incredibly relieving therapy

to have available. Um Oh. A third, a third area that that people have hypothesized about is a genetic selection or or genetic engineering, which is so definitely far beyond us right now, because Okay, there are a couple of genes that have been implicated in altruistic behavior, but studies into the whole genome of human people definitely indicate that that it's probably like a lot of genes working together along with a lot of environmental factors that make people

altruistic or jerks. Yeah, I mean, that's taking a step even farther back from us understanding what's going on in the brain. So in the brain, you know, we've implicated a few major regions, but it's still there's a lot of mystery. Sure, what exactly is the neural substrate for morality? Is it a whole brain kind of thing that's just gonna be too hard to understand? And now you've got to step back and say, now, what are all the things that make the parts of the brain behave the

way they do? Right? Right? And And obviously if you're talking about a moral bio enhancement that has the the largest blanket of of effect, then you would want to go all the way back to the most basic unit that you could, But it becomes progressively more difficult to identify all of the variables you need to understand in

order to actually make it work. That also, though, if you're if you're going to back up all the way to say, now we're not modifying an adult, but we are trying to create human from the start, an embryo will be the most moral. Yeah, exactly, altering germ cells to produce moral babies that grow up to be moral adults.

I mean, if you're starting at the beginning, it just seems like you could work harder to educate kids to be moral, but that that's not gonna work every time, right, because we do think that there there's pretty good evidence that there are genetic conditions that you can be born with that affect your moral behavior. Sure. Also on a related note, Moral Babies was one of my favorite Saturday Morning cartoons, Jim Henson's Moral Babies. Yeah, that's great. So

we've kind of touched on this a little bit. But why would anyone advocate for moral bio enhancements in the first place. We have the we have the bit at the top of the show where we have the philosophers who said, you know, since the dawn of humanity, we have had morality. Uh. And it was and it worked pretty well for us when we were all in our own little small groups that were more or less, you know, self sustaining and maybe only occasionally had contact with other

small groups. But this is that that level of morality is no longer sufficient to uh, to account or to make us make moral quote unquote decisions in a larger context, in a global context. Yeah, I mean, i'd say that if you if you just assume that it works as we would want it to, and you take away all of the potential caveats, it's obvious why we wanted you just you would rather be around people who treat other people, right,

and don't do selfish dangerous things. Yeah, I mean imagine a world in where in which everyone had these bio enhancements, right, Nor we're not talking about you have identified one subpopulation and they're going to be subjected to this because I mean, obviously, and I'm using loaded words here on purpose, but rather this is something that affects all humans. It becomes something that is, uh, whether it's mandate did or everyone somehow

magically global and we've all agreed to do it. Then then suddenly it sounds like that things would be kind of awesome. That people would all be making choices that didn't benefit themselves at the expense of someone else. They would try to make choices that would benefit multiple people or at least not cause hardship to other people while it's benefiting yourself. Dogs and cats living together, mass utopia, Yes, exactly. That's that's the that is like the the idealistic vision

of what this would be like. Of course, no crime, no wars, no no poverty, yeah, all all that good stuff. Yeah okay, yeah, so so so cool. So that that's all, at face value obviously quite good. And you might ask on top of that, then if we think it's possible to make things like this, then do we have a responsibility to create bio enhancements? Is it our do if

we know that we can do this? Yeah, if you were to measure up all the people who would be who would benefit from this, right, who whose condition is such that if this change were made, they would have uh more positive influences on their existence. And then you were to measure all the people who you could argue, well, maybe it's not a negative impact, but it uh it impedes their ability to succeed at the rate they've been

going at. If you look at it from that perspective, chances are you gonna say, well, from the numbers, like on paper, it makes total sense to do this because a relatively few number of people, when you're talking about billions, are going to have a slight a slight to maybe well even let's say a um extreme impact on their ability to improve their position in life has been You know that that's been put in place. You know they're not badly off, they just it be better off than

they are now easily. But then you have billions of people who can come from a place of poverty, of conflict, of real struggle and be removed from that. On paper, that's an easy thing to to see and say, well, it makes sense, we need to flip that switch. Sure.

The also, the philosophical argument could be made um that that traditional methods of betterment, education and socialization and stuff like that are only going to take us so far, uh in in in this incredible future that we're trying to build, and so like, eventually, is this the best

way in fact to go about it? Well? And and I think in particular not to get political, but in particular in sixteen, we've seen some evidence of things that have shocked some people where uh where we see that some beliefs like let's let's go with zeno of phobia being one, are much more ingrained and widespread in different parts of the world than maybe you had been aware

of before. And it raises some real hard questions. And and and by xenophobia, I mean xenophobia by itself that word using the word phobia, you're talking about irrational fear. But there are certainly people who held very strong beliefs because of what they perceive as being hard truths. And you you might think, well, I I because sworn we made more progress on the education of people to understand what the root causes of problems are versus what the

perceived problems are. But it's clear that that hasn't really happen, And that's what I think also fuels philosophers like the two I mentioned previously in saying like we've got to take a step further because the traditional approaches aren't working right right, and going further down that line, are are moral bio enhancements going to be the only way, in fact, to to save humanity from ourselves, to to to prevent some kind of global uh catastrophe. We we have the power.

I mean we have the I don't mean the power to save ourselves. I mean we have the power to destroy ourselves. I think that's quite clear. We have nuclear weapons, we have the power to change our climate and devastating ways. It is totally at our fingertips to destroy the earth. Moreover, we have the power to not at the very least, yeah, we have the power to not make choices that would prevent that from happening. Right, Like in the case of

climate change. There have been stories numerous on numerous occasions about the things that we need to do in order to at least slow down climate change. At this point, stopping it is much further out than a few years. Right, Even if we were to stop all activity that contributes to climate change right now, that's something there's momentum there that would take years for it to finally get to a point where it stopped, like centuries, like hundreds and

hundreds and thousands of years. So you know there's that. But if with some people would argue that without this moral bio enhancement, the fact that we know we need to make those changes isn't enough, right, we have to have some other form of compulsion. Well, you mentioned long term thinking earlier. Yeah, I mean people they're just saying, what So you're saying, this isn't gonna affect me in the next few months. I don't care. Yeah, yeah, it's not gonna does this? Is this going to make my

air conditioning bill lower next summer? No? Well, I mean might as well just crank everything up right now then. I mean a lot of people can't even properly factor the long term personal risks of something like smoking or something. So I mean it's only understandable that I'm not trying to make excuses for it, but people we just yeah, you're saying, okay, so it's gonna have this kind of vague, generalized effect that's hard to be specific about in like

many years from now. Moreover, if it's an effect that's so large that you think, well, my personal behaviors are going to have so little impact on the overall problem that it doesn't even matter, because as an individual, when you look at your individual contribution to the problem, it seems miniscule. And then you feel like, well, even if no matter what I do, there's no impact on the end result. The only impact is if everyone does it right. So it gets back to this idea of of mandating

this moral bio enhancement. Okay, and so we're gonna call it there for the first half of this conversation on moral bio enhancements. But if you want to hear the second half, join us again next time. And I feel morally obligated to mention that we recorded the whole thing and then made the determination that it was too long. I don't want to give people the sense that we just decided to stop here and then picked up again. See,

this is a potential problem. Is this kind of sheepishness Jonathan is showing I think you should be more resolute, and you need a certain amount of immorality to do that. How can we fix that? I'm sorry that I'm a morally perfect being, Guys, I feel so badly about that. Now I'll go and mow your lawns as a way of saying I'm sorry. If you'd like to tell Jonathan where your house is so that you can mow your lawn as well, don't do that. Yeah, that's Jonathan does

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