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We will cure virus.
by fnord123 1mo ago
We will cure virus.
- FeteCommuniste 1mo agoWe will cure carpet. We will cure desk. We will cure lamp.
- kridsdale1 1mo agoThat really got out of hand. You may want to lay low.
- andrekandre 1mo agowait till they get the 'war on carpet' on, no one will be spared...
- kanzure 1mo ago> We will cure virus. It is possible to prevent most viruses by recoding the human genome (requires embryo engineering or pre-embryo engineering) to use alternate codons that existing natty viruses don't use. This wouldn't prevent synthetic viruses from being developed that use the alternate codons, of course. See (1) https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2016-05-10/ultra-safe-cell-line/ https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2016-05-10/ultr... and (2) https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2017-05-09/ultrasafe-cell-line/ https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2017-05-09/ultr... and (3) https://x.com/RokoMijic/status/1720875112541364535 https://x.com/RokoMijic/status/1720875112541364535 for some background. As for "curing cancer", I suspect that Anthropic or OpenAI will use their high status/reputation to launder the existing solutions (germline, p53, enhanced DNA damage repair pathways, higher tumor-suppressor-to-oncogene copy number, more robust tumor-suppressor networks, more self-anti-cancer apoptosis, CD47 suppression, etc) that society has refused to accept. They might have enough reputation to get people to look at these ideas. It won't cure people with stage 5 turbo-cancer a.k.a the walking dead, but hopefully we won't be moving the goal posts _that_ much on them.
- jacquesm 1mo agoWhat could possibly go wrong...
- datakan 1mo agoI've seen this episode before
- kennywinker 1mo agoOo is this the one where barclay becomes a spider?!
- andrekandre 1mo agocould be, or the one where dr pulaski becomes an old lady...
- semiquaver 1mo agoOr the one where Tom Paris and Janeway turn into lizards and have babies.
- andrekandre 1mo agoi forgot about that one, that also reminds me, what janeway did to poor tuvix...
- fwip 1mo agoHonestly, the most likely thing is lots and lots of dead fetuses due to developmental abnormalities. I'd be surprised if it ever got to the point of resulting in a dead infant.
- kanzure 1mo agoQuality control and testing is absolutely essential, yeah. It's hard work and the plan shouldn't be misconstrued as "rewrite the whole genome of an embryo today and go for the first birth immediately" because that would be stupid when we know there is other work to be done. It shouldn't surprise ANYONE that making significant progress against cancer, aging, or other issues, would take lots of work and not doing the immediate obvious broken thing.