Comment by emporas

2 years ago

Back in 2008, i remember reading books thousands of pages long, about genetics in biology, and i was impressed by how easy the subject is. I was an amateur in programming at the time, but programming, regular programming of web servers, web frameworks and so on, was so much harder.

The cost of DNA sequencing had dropped already from 100 to 1 million [1], but i had no idea at the time, that genetic engineering was advancing at a rate that dwarfed Moore's law.

Anyway my point is, that no one is getting upset about censored LLM's or AI's, which will stop us from stitching together a biological agent and scoop out half of earth's human population. Books, magazines and traditional computer programs can achieve said purpose easily. (Scooping out half of earth's human population is impossible of course, but useful as a thought experiment.)