Wow. I relate seriously to the first half of your story - the "read lots of books, learn about traps, don't fall in" part.
But instead of completely ignoring emotions, I had decided to find the source and fix it. But just like you said - a kid doesn't have much power to fix things outside of themselves. But I had another piece of advice from family - it's not the outside that affects your emotions, you affect your emotions. If you're bored, just make yourself feel less bored by doing something (singing, drawing, thinking about what you're going to eat for dinner, AKA making your brain do work instead of whining).
I guess the main idea I got from books was that whiny idiots are idiots and are highly annoying. I try not to complain too much, and now I'm this horribly excitable person because when you have to make everything interesting yourself [didn't have a phone, so I couldn't be the kid who just sits down in the middle of a museum to play video games or whatever], everything is NEW! and EXCITING! (even though you've seen this same exact building fifty times)
Lass Puppet: the glasses make you act stereotypically female
Pass Puppet: the glasses don't have any text
This post is really important as a lot of other materials on LessWrong (notably AI to Zombies) really berate the idea that trying out things that haven't been tested via the Scientific Method.
This post explains that some (especially health) conditions may go completely outside the scope of testable-via-scientific-method, and at some point turning to chance is a good idea, reminding us that intuition may be often wrong but it can work wonders when used as a last resort.
This is something to remember when trying to solve problems that don't seem to have one perfect mathematical solution (yet).
One of the disadvantages of arguing "but it could be dangerous" (which is what you seem to be arguing), is that every new invention is probably dangerous in some way or other. Cars, for example, are an invention that changed life around the world [just like the internet, or nuclear energy, and gunpowder] and have been misused, there have been thousands if not millions of accidents, and yet people view them in a very positive sense. It is true that richer people have cars with price tags over a million, and while cars are nothing in comparison to a human life, I believe that long-term-wise, eugenics is going to have a gigantic net positive effect on humanity.
As a side note, have you read Dr. Seuss' book "The Sneetches and Other Stories"?
Personally, I've enjoyed the novella. Not the best I've ever read, but I wanted to learn what comes next, which is a high bar these days.
The beginning isn't as interesting as it could be. It's not as "hook-y" as most books I find in the library are. But by, say, Chapter 10, I was interested in reading it.
(I can't believe I'm criticizing AI work. Wow.)
I'm surprised ChatGPT changed the plot of the story with the last DMF message. Is there anything I'm not seeing or did it actually delete the whole last part of the storyline from that one prompt?
What I can't figure out is why BLUE died. She's supposed to be immune to physical dangers? What did she die of?
Why does the fourth amendment make you feel LESS safe in your homes? Because of the possibility that criminals will not be found out because police can't search THEIR homes?
I'd like to hear your reasoning about "39. Obesity is contagious".
Is it the mental motivation of seeing someone obese to become obese yourself?
I, too would like to know about this