How many billionaires need to be publicly executed to fix the usa political system.

Making a lot of clones of myself, raising them all differently, and seeing how many of them turn out in the same way as me.

I'd be really curious about the Tarzan experiment, having a human infant raised by apes.

Actually just stop allowing anyone with "defective" genes to reproduce.

I am fully I wouldnt exist in this hypothetical world (-11 vision in both eyes), but I would be curious what would happen if we only ever let perfectly healthy people with no genetic defects have kids.

Like would it eventually just become a perfect world where nobody needs glasses or asthma inhalers? Or would we die off because not enough genetically "perfect" people exist to make this plan work?

I'd like to see if we can build hybrid computer systems using cultured animal tissue (like Cephalopod or maybe GMO human / Cephalopod), basically grown onto an array of tiny wires. Push sensory information through the tiny wires and see if the lump of cells can learn. If it does, put it in a Eva. Or a butler robot. Or a robot vaccuum.

Idk. Its an idea for a scifi novel I've had. Some company does this and what people don't realize is the supposedly autonomous systems making their lives easier are fully conscious but live tortured existences. It would get more and more lovecraftian as the cephalopod hybrids some how take over (I was thinking maybe cancer? or networked mind) and start chopping everyone to bits. Maybe they try and eat them but they have no mouth, like how an octopus arm when detach will hunt and try to feed a non-existent mouth.

Worldwide, making all coffee decaf, and not telling anyone.

Making chimeras sounds cool as shit. What's even unethical about it? Why can't I have an army of beavermen to dam the world's waterways unless my ransom demands are met?

Ok, I think I see where the unethical part lies...

I always found the stories of human/chimp hybrids fascinating.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

https://bigthink.com/the-past/soviet-human-ape-super-warriors-humanzee-ivanov/

Unproven, but theoretically as possible as horse/donkey, zebra/horse, or lion/tiger.

I find those rats with the NOVA1 gene fascinating. I wonder what would happen if we downright tried to give rats human-level intelligence? They are more empathetic than humans I hear, they would make the perfect replacement for our species!

And another thing I would like to try, is to find a really big person, and see how far they can swallow me feet-first, before they run into problems, or one of us is injured.

I love the story of the father who raised his son on Klingon until it became too awkward for modern usage.

Thought that would be a fun experiment on my child. Don’t know much Klingon though.

Take ten or twenty thousand children, take over a fairly large portion of a midwestern state, build a large and complete environment for them to live in including towns, museums, theme parks etc. and raise them as normal Americans but absolutely 100% avoid introducing them to the concept of religion until they're 25.

Hypothetically. I'd see if I could take someone and bring them into a Truman show world without them knowing.

Allow all kinds of drugs and other enhancements in sports and see where the limits of the body are

Throwing somebody straight into lava in a volcano. Would be interesting to see what happens.

Trolling against some lemmy mods? (surely one of the most hazardous things to to)

gather massive amounts of stats on the ideal amount of physical punishment to mete out to children to produce the best results in adults.

Hypothesis: Conservatives will refuse to believe contradicting facts regardless of punishment.

Experiment: Use increasingly painful stimulus for negative reinforcement when subjects espouse harmful views, ie racism.

Most research on human embryonic stem cells - currently impossible in western countries due to ethics concerns.

Theoretically, if a few stem cells from every embryo early on and frozen that might be a huge boon for them once they grow up to adults with potential health issues. Need a new heart? Grow one in a lab from the preserved cells - perfectly compatible.

Currently these kinds of things can't be explored, and whilst the ethics may be dubious the potential medical benefits left on the table are astonishing.

Put a hundred toddlers on an island. Leave a few older children that will disappear a few years later that are taught to fish/hunt/gather. See what kind of language develops, or what kind of civilization. How many survive?

It is VERY unethical. Add variables to other islands, such as the amount of children, and what you teach them.

Here's a very unethical linguistics experiment that I think would be interesting:

Raising a group of children completely isolated from any language, spoken or otherwise. They would not be fully isolated from people, but those people would not be able to communicate with each other in the vicinity of the children (no speaking, no gestures, etc.) Of course, to isolate them from language would mean strictly controlling their lives (very unethical). Could they communicate with each other, and maybe even develop a language?