Improved Whitepaper.md and upgraded Whitepaper.pdf to Version 6.

Changelog.md

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 ## Unversioned Changes
 
+* Improved Whitepaper.md and upgraded Whitepaper.pdf to Version 6. - *Simon Sarasova*
 * Removed whitespace from license filenames. - *Simon Sarasova*
 * Improved Future-Plans.md. - *Simon Sarasova*
 * Improved Documentation.md. - *Simon Sarasova*

Contributors.md

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 Name | Date Of First Commit | Number Of Commits
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-Simon Sarasova | June 13, 2023 | 241
+Simon Sarasova | June 13, 2023 | 242

documentation/Whitepaper.md

@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ The human species is a fascinating biological phenomenon with a complex and myst
 
 What has resulted is a species which possesses much beauty and biodiversity.
 
-We can classify humans into different races. Races are defined by grouping humans by genetic attributes such as skin, eye and hair color; skin and hair texture; facial structure, and the alleles in their genome which effect physical traits. If a human is sufficiently different from any other human, they are considered the only member of a unique race. Classifications of racial groups are fuzzy and not fully discrete, because every human is genetically and physically unique.
+We can classify humans into different races. Races are defined by grouping humans by genetic attributes such as skin, eye and hair color; skin and hair texture; facial structure, and the alleles in their genomes which effect physical traits. If a human is sufficiently different from any other human, they are considered the only member of a unique race. Classifications of racial groups are fuzzy and not fully discrete, because every human is genetically and physically unique.
 
-We can also classify humans by their geographic ancestry by describing the locations where each person's ancestors lived at different times in history. Ancestry can be measured by analyzing the percentage of DNA that a person shares with past human populations. Geographic distance was a significant impediment to gene flow between population groups for most of humanity's history. The humans within each isolated population group bred among themselves, resulting in the loss of genetic variation through the process of genetic drift. Consequently, members of these populations tend to be more racially similar to each other.
+We can also classify humans by their geographic ancestry by describing the locations where each person's ancestors lived at different times in history. Ancestry can be measured by analyzing genetic markers that a person shares with past human populations. Geographic distance was a significant impediment to gene flow between population groups for most of humanity's history. The humans within each isolated population group bred among themselves, resulting in the loss of genetic variation through the process of genetic drift. Consequently, members of these populations tend to be racially similar to each other.
 
 ## Racial Loneliness
 
@@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ The beauty crisis, also known as the beauty scarcity crisis, the beauty shortage
 
 The beauty crisis is defined as the modern scarcity of beautiful humans and the scarcity's negative effects on humanity's happiness and flourishing. The modern human species has collectively become much less beautiful than it was throughout most of human history.
 
-There are many causes to the modern beauty crisis. One primary cause is the increase in humanity's collective beauty standards. Humanity's modern exposure to the world's most beautiful people and races has caused our beauty standards to increase. I posit that modern humans collectively rate their peers as being much less beautiful than ancient humans rated their own peers. When humans were hunter gatherers living in small tribes, we typically had visual exposure to a much lower quantity of races. Ancient human beauty standards were typically formed by a person's exposure to members of their own race and races which were more similar to their own. Modern humans now have visual exposure to the world's most rare and beautiful people and races via photos, videos, and in-person interactions. Digital beautification technologies and artificially generated humans have also exposed us to gorgeous humans that are more beautiful than any real-life human beings. Frequent exposure to highly beautiful human specimens has desensitized the parts of our brains which respond to beauty, causing us to perceive people as being uglier. Humanity's modern widened exposure to a larger diversity of humans has also expanded our collective beauty ranking bounds to include all of the world's ugliest and most beautiful races and people.
+There are many causes to the modern beauty crisis. One primary cause is the increase in humanity's collective beauty standards. Humanity's modern exposure to the world's most beautiful people and races has caused our beauty standards to increase. I posit that modern humans collectively rate their peers as being much less beautiful than ancient humans rated their own peers. When humans were hunter gatherers living in small tribes, we typically had visual exposure to a much lower quantity of races. Ancient human beauty standards were typically formed by a person's exposure to members of their own race and races which were more similar to their own. Modern humans now have visual exposure to the world's most beautiful people and races via photos, videos, and in-person interactions. Humanity's modern widened exposure to a larger diversity of humans has expanded our collective beauty ranking bounds to include all of the world's ugliest and most beautiful people and races. Digital beautification technologies and artificially generated humans have also exposed us to gorgeous humans that are more beautiful than any real-life human beings. Frequent exposure to highly beautiful human specimens has desensitized the parts of our brains which respond to beauty, causing us to perceive people as being uglier.
 
-Beauty exposure's effect of increasing humanity's collective beauty standards is very difficult to undo. The best treatment for people living in modern times is to cease consumption of media which depicts beautiful people to attempt to reset one's beauty standards. Unfortunately, this will never reset humanity's beauty standards to the state they existed in for ancient humans. Firstly, most humans will still be exposed to a larger diversity of races in their daily lives than ancient humans were exposed to due to advances in transportation technology, which have enabled the spread all of the world's races to all regions of the world. Secondly, it is very difficult to unsee and forget beautiful people and races. Forgetting someone's face can take decades, and it is usually impossible to forget the beauty of a race or particular anatomical structures. People should avoid consuming content which depicts beautiful people as early in life as possible, especially pornography. One possible way to decrease a person's beauty standards is a novel technology which could involve showing a person photos of ugly people while giving them some form of therapeutic stimulation. Some ideas include a cocktail of drugs, electricity to the brain, brain-machine interfaces, and magnetism to the brain.
+Beauty exposure's effect of increasing humanity's beauty standards is very difficult to undo. The best treatment for people living in modern times is to cease consumption of media which depicts beautiful people to attempt to reset one's beauty standards. Unfortunately, this will never reset humanity's beauty standards to the state they existed in for ancient humans. Firstly, most humans will still be exposed to a larger diversity of races in their daily lives than ancient humans were exposed to due to advances in transportation technology, which have enabled the spread all of the world's races to all regions of the world. Secondly, it is very difficult to unsee and forget beautiful people and races. Forgetting someone's face can take decades, and it is usually impossible to forget the beauty of a race or particular anatomical structures. People should avoid consuming content which depicts beautiful people as early in life as possible, especially pornography. One possible way to decrease a person's beauty standards is a novel technology which could involve showing a person photos of ugly people while giving them some form of therapeutic stimulation. Some ideas include a cocktail of drugs, electricity to the brain, brain-machine interfaces, and magnetism to the brain.
 
 The second major cause of the modern beauty crisis is the obesity crisis. Modern technology has caused and enabled people to become more obese than ever before. Rates of obesity have skyrocketed over the past century, causing humans to become much uglier. Some of the heaviest humans of all time are alive today. We are living in an age of unprecedented ugliness.
 
-We are also living in an age of unprecedented beauty. Teeth straightening braces, supplements, skin creams, and various other technologies have helped to produce some of the most beautiful humans of all time. Modern beautification technologies have unfortunately not been powerful enough to offset the uglifying effects of our modern world.
+We are also living in an age of unprecedented beauty. Dentistry, teeth straightening braces, supplements, skin creams, and various other technologies have helped to produce some of the most beautiful humans of all time. Modern beautification technologies have unfortunately not been powerful enough to offset the uglifying effects of our modern world.
 
 The beauty crisis is one of the most significant issues plaguing humankind. Humans have become less attracted to each other, exacerbating many societal ills.
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ The beauty crisis is contributing to the global fertility crisis. Many people la
 
 Modern unprecedented beauty exposure, beautification technologies, and modern society's uglifying effects on our species have all contributed to the emergence of the beauty inequality crisis. The beauty inequality crisis is defined as the modern widening of the gap between the beautifulest and the ugliest humans and the gap's negative effects on humanity. The size disparity between the most and least sexually desirable portions of humanity has grown substantially. A larger portion of humanity now wants to mate and breed with a smaller portion of humanity. Competition for access to the increasingly-scarce resource of beautiful people has grown fiercer than ever. The beauty disparity crisis has increased the prevalence of people who are deeply envious of beautiful people and their superior social, romantic, and career success.
 
-Human beauty is also becoming more important for human happiness and wellbeing. If humanity's story is like a video game, we are running out of quests to complete. Robots are replacing humans for labor. Artificial intelligence will soon provide the answers to most solvable questions. Humanity will eventually solve most of the world's problems such as curing most diseases and giving most people access to food and shelter. We are reaching the end of philosophy where most ideas have been thought of and most quandaries have been solved. As a result of these factors, modern humans have fewer sources of meaning. Humanity's modern shortage of meaning is known as the meaning crisis. The creation and worship of beauty are becoming some of the only sources of meaning in people's lives. Humans are now pursuing indulgent lives of hedonism, romance with other humans, and immersion into artificial and natural beauty. Human beauty worship and sexual relationships have become even more important to a happy human life. Robots cannot solve the beauty crisis because sexual and emotional human contact are some of the only things robots will not be able to replace or replicate.
+Human beauty is also becoming more important for human happiness and wellbeing. If humanity's story is like a video game, we are running out of quests to complete. Robots are replacing humans for labor. Artificial intelligence will soon provide the answers to most solvable questions. Humanity will eventually solve most of the world's problems such as curing most diseases and giving most people access to food and shelter. We are reaching the end of philosophy where most ideas have been thought of and most quandaries have been solved. As a result of these factors, modern humans have fewer sources of meaning. Humanity's modern shortage of meaning is known as the meaning crisis. The creation and worship of beauty are becoming some of the only sources of meaning in people's lives. Humans are now pursuing indulgent lives of hedonism, romance with other humans, and immersion into artificial and natural beauty. Human beauty worship and sexual relationships have become even more important to a happy human life. Robots cannot solve the beauty crisis because sexual and emotional human contact are some of the only things robots are not able to replace or replicate.
 
 The optimal solution to the beauty crisis is to beautify the human species. The ideal way to make humans more beautiful is by improving their genetics.
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ I will now describe an overview of the features and advantages of Seekia. The te
 
 ## Eugenics
 
-Eugenics is the practice of improving humanity's genetic quality. Genetic quality is defined by four main attributes: beauty, health, intelligence, and personality. Seekia aims to improve humanity's genetic quality by making humans more beautiful, healthy, intelligent, virtuous, and happy.
+Eugenics is defined as any practice or process which improves humanity's genetic quality. Genetic quality is defined by four main attributes: beauty, health, intelligence, and personality. Seekia aims to improve humanity's genetic quality by making humans more beautiful, healthy, intelligent, virtuous, and happy.
 
 Seekia aims to improve humanity's genetics by facilitating the eugenic technique of selective breeding. Selective breeding is the practice of breeding specific human pairs to produce humans of a higher genetic quality. By encouraging breeding between certain people, it is possible to increase humanity's overall beauty, health, intelligence, virtue, and happiness. This technique is akin to combining the same set of foods together to create either 5 delicious meals or 5 revolting meals.
 
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Seekia aims to make humanity more intelligent by encouraging breeding between sp
 
 ### Personality
 
-Seekia aims to improve the personalities of the human species by encouraging breeding between specific human pairs who are more likely to produce offspring who are virtuous and happy. Virtue and happiness are strongly influenced by genetics. Seekia aims to improve the personalities of humanity by building a prediction system that can predict how happy and virtuous someone is from their genome, and measuring the virtue and happiness of many prospective offspring genomes for each potential couple. Users will be able to sort their matches by how good each offspring's personality is likely to be. The creation of the prediction system should utilize training data which contains many people's genomes and information about their personalities. Personality information should measure positive personality traits such as happiness, virtue, hopefulness, empathy, calmness, compassion, sociability, generosity, cleanliness, honesty, perseverance, and kindness.
+Seekia aims to improve the personalities of the human species by encouraging breeding between specific human pairs who are more likely to produce offspring who are virtuous and happy. Virtue and happiness are strongly influenced by genetics. Seekia aims to improve the personalities of humanity by building a prediction system that can predict how happy and virtuous someone is from their genome, and measuring the virtue and happiness of many prospective offspring genomes for each potential couple. Users will be able to sort their matches by how good their offspring's personality is likely to be. The creation of the prediction system should utilize training data which contains many people's genomes and information about their personalities. Personality information should measure positive personality traits such as happiness, virtue, hopefulness, empathy, calmness, compassion, sociability, generosity, cleanliness, honesty, perseverance, and kindness.
 
 ## Open Source
 
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 Each Seekia user has a profile. Users must broadcast a profile to be able to chat with other users. Profiles which are broadcasted to the network are viewable by anyone.
 
-User profiles can contain information about a variety of topics such as age, location, biological sex, gender identity, sexuality, genetics, race, height, body type, language, fame, wealth, infectious diseases, drug use, hobbies, job, beliefs, diet, and pets.
+User profiles can contain information about a variety of topics such as age, location, biological sex, gender identity, sexuality, race, genetics, height, body type, language, fame, wealth, infectious diseases, drug use, hobbies, job, beliefs, diet, and pets.
 
 Users can browse the network and find matches for free without creating an identity or broadcasting a profile. This freedom allows many more people to search for matches, which should significantly increase the quantity of users who eventually broadcast a profile. A web explorer should be built that allows anyone to view user profiles without having to download the Seekia app.
 
-Users should only share information in their profiles which they are comfortable being fully public and searchable. Sharing less will possibly result in more matches and messages for a user, because others will fill the gaps of knowledge about the user with their fantasies of a perfect mate.
+Users should only share information in their profiles which they are comfortable with being fully public and searchable. Sharing less will possibly result in more matches and messages for a user, because others will fill the gaps of knowledge about the user with their fantasies of a perfect mate.
 
 ## Questionnaires
 
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 ## Race
 
-Seekia is a race aware mate discovery network. Users can browse potential mates while having a deep awareness of each user's race and the predicted race of their offspring. Seekia aims to allow users to choose a mate who is the most likely and capable of producing offspring who belong to their desired race.
+Seekia is a race aware mate discovery network. Users can browse potential mates while having a deep awareness of each user's race and the predicted race of their offspring. Seekia allows users to choose a mate who is the most likely and capable of producing offspring who belong to their desired race.
 
 The racial description of users should be highly precise and detailed. The more accurately a user's profile can describe their race, the more effective Seekia will be at helping users to meet and mate with members of their desired races.
 
-Users can share detailed information about their race such as their skin, eye and hair color; hair texture; and the allele values in their genome which effect physical traits. Users can filter and sort other users by these attributes and the calculated attributes of their offspring.
+Users can share detailed information about their race such as their skin, eye and hair color; hair texture; and the alleles in their genome which effect physical traits. Users can filter and sort other users by these attributes and the calculated attributes of their offspring.
 
 ### Ancestry
 
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 ### Racial Similarity
 
-For a person to have offspring who look as similar as possible to them, they should breed with someone who is the most racially similar to them, without being so similar that the negative effects of inbreeding occur. Users are able to sort other users based on their Racial Similarity, a calculation which measures trait similarity, trait gene similarity, ancestral similarity, and haplogroup similarity.
+For a person to have offspring who look as similar as possible to them, they should breed with someone who is the most racially similar to them, without being so similar that the negative effects of inbreeding occur. Users are able to sort other users by their Racial Similarity, a calculation which measures trait similarity, trait gene similarity, ancestral similarity, and haplogroup similarity.
 
 Trait similarity compares user traits such as eye color, skin color, hair color, and hair texture. Trait gene similarity compares the alleles responsible for physical traits from each user's genome. Ancestral similarity compares the geographic distance between each user's ancestry composition locations.
 
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ If two people who have the same recessive monogenic disease breed, their offspri
 
 In order to prevent people with recessive monogenic diseases from being conceived, we must prevent people who have any defects in genes for the same diseases from breeding with each other. This practice only requires reducing each person's pool of potential mates by a small amount (~5% in 2024), but will result in a drastic reduction in the prevalence of recessive monogenic disorders within the human species.
 
-A Person analysis describes a person’s probability of having each monogenic disease and their probability of passing a disease variant for each disease. A Couple analysis will report on the offspring's probability of having each monogenic disease. Users can share their monogenic disease probabilities on their profiles, and users can filter and sort users based on their offspring's probability of having a monogenic disease.
+A Person analysis describes a person’s probability of having each monogenic disease and their probability of passing a disease variant for each disease. A Couple analysis will report on the offspring's probability of having each monogenic disease. Users can share their monogenic disease probabilities on their profiles, and users can filter and sort users by their offspring's probability of having a monogenic disease.
 
 Users have 2 options for filtering their offspring's monogenic disease probability: 0% and <100%.
 
@@ -244,15 +244,15 @@ Selecting <100% will only show the user potential mates with whom the user's off
 
 Polygenic diseases are diseases whose risk is influenced by many genes.
 
-A Person analysis describes a person's risk score for each polygenic disease. A Couple analysis describes a prospective offspring's average risk score for each polygenic disease. Users can share their allele values for genes which influence each disease's risk on their profile. The Seekia app is able to calculate genetic outcome probabilities for each user's offspring. Users can sort potential mates by their offspring's disease risk scores. Seekia enables users to mate with other users with whom their offspring has a lower probability of having polygenic diseases.
+A Person analysis describes a person's risk score for each polygenic disease. A Couple analysis describes a prospective offspring's average risk score for each polygenic disease. Users can share their alleles for genes which influence each disease's risk on their profile. The Seekia app is able to calculate genetic outcome probabilities for each user's offspring. Users can sort potential mates by their offspring's disease risk scores. Seekia enables users to mate with other users with whom their offspring has a lower probability of having polygenic diseases.
 
-Seekia allows for a user's polygenic disease risk to influence their sexual market value. For users who share their polygenic disease allele values, their disease risk is calculable from their profile. Users can sort their matches by each match's total polygenic disease risk score. Users who are more likely to be healthy will be more sought after. Users with a higher risk of dying from various diseases may choose to mate with each other. Users with a higher risk of cognitive decline in their old age may choose to mate with users who do not have an elevated risk, increasing the probability that the user's mate will be able to care for them in their old age.
+Seekia allows for a user's polygenic disease risk to influence their sexual market value. For users who share their polygenic disease alleles, their disease risk is calculable from their profile. Users can sort their matches by each match's total polygenic disease risk score. Users who are more likely to be healthy will be more sought after. Users with a higher risk of dying from various diseases may choose to mate with each other. Users with a higher risk of cognitive decline in their old age may choose to mate with users who do not have an elevated risk, increasing the probability that the user's mate will be able to care for them in their old age.
 
 ### Traits
 
-A Person analysis contains a person's trait outcome scores, and a Couple analysis contains the offspring's trait outcome scores. Users can share the allele values for locations in their genome which influence each trait in their profiles. The Seekia app can calculate the offspring outcomes for each user. Seekia allows users to filter and sort other users based on their offspring's trait outcome probabilities.
+A Person analysis contains a person's trait outcome scores, and a Couple analysis contains the offspring's trait outcome scores. Users can share the alleles in their genome which influence each trait in their profiles. The Seekia app can calculate the offspring outcomes for each user. Seekia allows users to filter and sort other users by their offspring's trait outcome probabilities.
 
-A user could sort users based on the probability of their offspring being able to tolerate lactose. A user who enjoys cooking lactose-based meals could use this technology to maximize the probability that their offspring will be able to tolerate those foods in adulthood. A user could also try to maximize the probability of their offspring having a certain hair texture or eye color.
+A user could sort users by the probability of their offspring being able to tolerate lactose. A user who enjoys cooking lactose-based meals could use this technology to maximize the probability that their offspring will be able to tolerate those foods in adulthood. A user could also try to maximize the probability of their offspring having a certain hair texture or eye color.
 
 In summary, the genetic matchmaking technology within Seekia is a major improvement to the human mating experience. These features can be used in conjunction with the genetic screening of embryos to maximize each user's ability to increase the health of their offspring and to choose the traits of their offspring which they desire.
 
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ In summary, the genetic matchmaking technology within Seekia is a major improvem
 
 A common criticism of for-profit mate discovery services is that they have a perverse incentive to extract money from their users. Critics claim that a profit incentive may motivate these services to keep users as customers by preventing them from finding a long term mate and instead encouraging users to go on many fruitless dates with incompatible people.
 
-No entities profit directly from Seekia users. The only reason why participating in the Seekia network costs money is to prevent spam and bad behavior. All spent cryptocurrency funds are destroyed. Requiring spent funds to be burned discourages bad actors from attacking the network, because it is impossible for them to recover any funds used in their attacks. Burning funds also reduces any incentive to keep costs high because there are no direct financial beneficiaries.
+No entities profit directly from Seekia users. The only reason why participating in the Seekia network costs money is to prevent spam and bad behavior. All spent cryptocurrency funds are destroyed. Requiring spent funds to be burned discourages bad actors from attacking the network, because it is impossible for them to recover any funds used in their attacks. Destroying funds also reduces any incentive to keep costs high because there are no direct financial beneficiaries.
 
 Hosts and moderators are not financially rewarded by the network protocol. Most hosts will hopefully be volunteers and non-profit institutions who are altruistically motivated. Moderators could be funded by donations, companies, non-profit institutions, or decentralized autonomous organizations.
 
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ Seekia provides a messaging system for users to communicate privately.
 
 Each message must be funded. The cost of funding a message is determined by its size and desired duration.
 
-Users can filter and sort the users who they are communicating with. For example, a user can filter their conversations to only show users who fulfill their desires, and sort their conversations by the distance of the conversator.
+Users can filter and sort the users who they are communicating with. For example, a user can filter their conversations to only show conversators who fulfill their desires, and sort their conversations by the distance of the conversator.
 
 ### Message Inboxes
 
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ Supermoderators are a safeguard against attacks on the moderation system by mali
 
 ### Sticky Viewable Statuses
 
-Each identity, profile, and message consensus verdict is always able to change. A verdict may be unjust for a period of time. For example, a malicious moderator could fund their identity to a high rank, ban all moderators below them, and ban all content on the network. This moderator could cause ruleful content on the network to have a Banned verdict. To undo the damage, a higher-ranked moderator or supermoderator must ban this malicious moderator to restore order to the network. This could take a while, depending on how highly ranked the malicious moderator is.
+Each identity, profile, and message consensus verdict is always able to change. A verdict may be unjust for a period of time. For example, a malicious moderator could fund their identity to a high rank, ban all moderators below them, and ban all content on the network. This moderator could cause ruleful content on the network to have a Banned verdict. To undo the damage, a higher-ranked moderator or supermoderator must ban this malicious moderator to restore sanity to the network. This could take a while, depending on how highly ranked the malicious moderator is.
 
 Sticky viewable statuses are used to solve the problem of verdict variability. Each identity, profile, and message has a sticky viewable status which is determined by the percentage of its viewable verdicts for a defined time period. A viewable verdict is a verdict which an identity or piece of content must possess to be visible to regular users. To be considered viewable, Mate profiles must be Approved, whereas Host and Moderator profiles can be Undecided or Approved.
 
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ Informing human mating choices with racial and genetic information will have a m
 
 Seekia aims to cure racial loneliness, beautify the human species, reduce the prevalence of genetic diseases, increase humanity's intelligence, improve people's personalities, and boost global fertility rates.
 
-Seekia has the potential to create families, facilitate the conception of beautiful and healthy offspring, and increase the amount of love and happiness in the world.
+Seekia has the potential to create families; facilitate the conception of beautiful, healthy, intelligent, virtuous, and happy offspring; and increase the amount of love in the world.
 
 Join me in my effort to change the world and build a better future for all.
 
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ The genetic future of our species is at stake.
 
 ## Learn More
 
-Access Seekia's website from these domains: **Seekia.eth** or **Seekia.net**
+Access Seekia's websites from these domains: **Seekia.eth** or **Seekia.net**
 
 Access Simon Sarasova's website: SimonSarasova.eth