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It's very amusing that the parent comment, or anyone else for that matter, believes their credentials somehow are enough to quell us about any potential horrifi
by antegamisou 2y ago
It's very amusing that the parent comment, or anyone else for that matter, believes their credentials somehow are enough to quell us about any potential horrific implications.
- CharlieDigital 2y agoParent comment is coming from an ethical person and ethical people often have a hard time imagining how unethical people operate. Even I think I'm nowhere near unethical enough to maliciously use this dataset, but who would have thought that a social media platform where you scroll posts from your friends and family could be used as a political tool?
- antegamisou 2y ago> Parent comment is coming from an ethical person and ethical people often have a hard time imagining how unethical people operate. This is a trait of delusional people as well as those very deep into some "technocratic" ivory tower without any formed code of ethics, too.
- Spacecosmonaut 2y agoI added my credentials to address the "malicious scientist" scenario that some people may associate with leaked genetic information. You dont need an individual's genome to create rather dangerous gentic weaponry. For example, we now have cell-penetrating prime editor ribonucleoproteins, a derivation of the CRISPR system. These are essentially assembled molecular machines that can be loaded install almost any genetic mutation, such as tumor driver mutations. A picogram of this protein complex is potentially enough to riddle your body with cancer a couple of years after delivery.
- CharlieDigital 2y agoMalicious doesn't just have to be biological in nature just because the data here is biological. That data can be used for a variety of non-biological malicious uses.