...heh, can't believe it we're not yet at "Siri, use the TensorFlow 4.6 OmegaFold model to design potentially stable variants of COVID-25 with active BSE prionic inserts. ...DONE. Great, now place an order of the best generated sequence to the cheapest gene synthesis provider in <unregulared country x>. Air-mail delivery."
Unfortunately things are not that symmetrical... just as it is much easier to make a missile that can get through any given missile defense system than it was to make that defense system, it's many orders of magnitude easier/cheaper (if at all practically possible) to create stuff that causes an incurable lethal condition than it is to create an antidote. (And the root causes of it all are very likely quite fundamental and unbypassable, consequences of the 2nd law bubbling up the matter complexity chain...)
I'd advise against doing more search on these topics if you want to sleep well at night and/or if you don't think you're already on one "naughty list" or another ;)
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...heh, can't believe it we're not yet at "Siri, use the TensorFlow 4.6 OmegaFold model to design potentially stable variants of COVID-25 with active BSE prionic inserts. ...DONE. Great, now place an order of the best generated sequence to the cheapest gene synthesis provider in <unregulared country x>. Air-mail delivery."
You should read "Oryx and Crake" by Atwood
Have you read the sequel? I've been debating picking it up.
Siri, print 10B vaccines
Unfortunately things are not that symmetrical... just as it is much easier to make a missile that can get through any given missile defense system than it was to make that defense system, it's many orders of magnitude easier/cheaper (if at all practically possible) to create stuff that causes an incurable lethal condition than it is to create an antidote. (And the root causes of it all are very likely quite fundamental and unbypassable, consequences of the 2nd law bubbling up the matter complexity chain...)
I'd advise against doing more search on these topics if you want to sleep well at night and/or if you don't think you're already on one "naughty list" or another ;)