There you go!

Steps from your mailbox to an actual virus is a few days of bench work.

Yes, that's one of the ones I was talking about.

That's not a service that makes you a virus, and making one from an mRNA transcript is not trivial.

estearum 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Here let's just get specific.

For each of the years below, what is YOUR estimate for how long would it take a person of 80th percentile intelligence with $10,000,000 (2026 money) to get from "I'd like to kill a lot of people" to a working virus?

You can provide a range for each if you'd like.

In the year 1800 – how long?

1950?

2020?

2026?

2050?

2200?

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smallmancontrov 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

And one wouldn't make one from mRNA. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Still: the difficulty isn't comparable to EUV machines or refining uranium and does not form a comfortable security barrier.

	▲	timr 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I generally agree -- the actual risk is from serious/state actors, and for those, the barriers are not high. I'm just saying that people are focused on the wrong problem because they've got LLM-brain.