Am I going crazy here? A completely random person tells AI to generate a novel vaccine/compound, and people are actually upset that there were 3 months of regulatory hurdle he had to jump through before he was able to start injecting this new compound into an live animal's bloodstream? Really?

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ACCount37 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It's an animal, and a terminally ill one at that. What's your worst case scenario?

Is it that the dog dies faster than it would have?

That's not actually an issue. We already have vets who just put terminally ill pets down.

So, who does the bureaucracy help? Who's protected by it? Why is it there at all?

	▲	c0balt 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is there to ensure an animal is not experimented on unnecessarily or with excessive pain. Discussing a process like this might require you to slightly look further than one mostly clear cut case. Part of his filings will be actually stating the "terminally ill" part and having this approved by an ethics committee. Making a moral judgment here is the committee's actual role as not all cases are so "simple".