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haxiomic an hour ago

There’s YouTubers who do this [0]. I’d argue estimate the risks of a synthetically induced pandemic of massive impact this century are very high

- [0] https://youtu.be/aoczYXJeMY4?is=OqObeGzZB6AKL0Jk

timr 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Not even close to the same thing. That's taking an existing viral transfection system and swapping in a single gene.

Thermo Fisher sells a kit to do this [1]. It's something you might do a few thousand times on the way to actually generating a novel virus.

> I’d argue estimate the risks of a synthetically induced pandemic of massive impact this century are very high

I'd argue that it probably already happened, and had nothing to do with AI.

[1] AAV transfection.

wat10000 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

“There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

But the next one (or the first one, if that one wasn’t manmade) will probably be much worse.

moralestapia 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

>the risks of another synthetically induced pandemic of massive impact