Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses
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Re: Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jesus, how are the other living things existing at all?
You should hear about the war that occurs in the ocean non stop. Quadrillions of bacteria, bacteriaphages, and viruses are in a constant battle and evolving to one up each other. Really I don't get how multicellular life survived it.
Why go to the ocean, because that happens everywhere, non-stop. If your immune system stops working, then you are a dead man.
Re: Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses
#23This specific study sounds relatively benign, but generative models for DNA sequences sounds like an incredibly dangerous technology to develop. If someone were to reproduce their study while including animal viruses in the training data, what would it be capable of? And what about after a few years of progress? Their phages have only 5400 base pairs, but the hepatitis virus has around 3000, and ebola only had ~19,00…
Don't worry, if it escapes from the lab we can just blame it on the bats again
Re: Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should hear about the war that occurs in the ocean non stop. Quadrillions of bacteria, bacteriaphages, and viruses are in a constant battle and evolving to one up each other. Really I don't get how multicellular life survived it.
Why go to the ocean, because that happens everywhere, non-stop. If your immune system stops working, then you are a dead man.
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Re: Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses
#25This specific study sounds relatively benign, but generative models for DNA sequences sounds like an incredibly dangerous technology to develop. If someone were to reproduce their study while including animal viruses in the training data, what would it be capable of? And what about after a few years of progress? Their phages have only 5400 base pairs, but the hepatitis virus has around 3000, and ebola only had ~19,00…
We have 5 known antibiotics. There are "MRSA" bacteria (which is a property of bacterial species, not a name for a particular species (anymore)) which don't care or react to about 4 of them and the 5th one is showing slightly reduced effectiveness already. Why? Presumably because, of course, the new government rules imposed on doctors for antibiotics are about saving money and NOT about fighting resistance. The 5th a…
Googling the 5 known antibiotics comes back
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Re: Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses
#26It's a bit worrying how easy it would be for a bad actor to make a new anti human virus. I guess it's good that we can churn out MRNA vaccines pretty quickly these days if needed.
Re: Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses
#27This specific study sounds relatively benign, but generative models for DNA sequences sounds like an incredibly dangerous technology to develop. If someone were to reproduce their study while including animal viruses in the training data, what would it be capable of? And what about after a few years of progress? Their phages have only 5400 base pairs, but the hepatitis virus has around 3000, and ebola only had ~19,00…
Don't worry, if it escapes from the lab we can just blame it on the bats again
Edit: I take back my snark.
I never understood the "it's really important for us to blame the lab leak" angle. I certainly want to know what actually happened, but some people really, really want it to be a lab leak. Perhaps you can explain?
Re: Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't worry, if it escapes from the lab we can just blame it on the bats again
Edit: I take back my snark. I never understood the "it's really important for us to blame the lab leak" angle. I certainly want to know what actually happened, but some people really, really want it to be a lab leak. Perhaps you can explain?
If it is a lab leak people can blame other people for the disease. If it is naturally occuring there is nobody to blame and people have to face the idea that nature can still kill them at anytime and justifies lock downs and restrictions when dangerous diseases arise.
Re: Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Edit: I take back my snark. I never understood the "it's really important for us to blame the lab leak" angle. I certainly want to know what actually happened, but some people really, really want it to be a lab leak. Perhaps you can explain?
If it is a lab leak people can blame other people for the disease. If it is naturally occuring there is nobody to blame and people have to face the idea that nature can still kill them at anytime and justifies lock downs and restrictions when dangerous diseases arise.
But don't lab leaks that result in pandemics still require lockdowns and restrictions when dangerous diseases are leaked?
Re: Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it is a lab leak people can blame other people for the disease. If it is naturally occuring there is nobody to blame and people have to face the idea that nature can still kill them at anytime and justifies lock downs and restrictions when dangerous diseases arise.
But don't lab leaks that result in pandemics still require lockdowns and restrictions when dangerous diseases are leaked?
It should, but some people don't care as long as they can put the blame of any consequences on somebody else. It lets them push the responcibilty of their own actions onto others.