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Re: Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]

#24

People joked a lot about "injectible source code / machine code" but it is kind of interesting injecting yourself with something that has the source on github.

Note that this is a sequencing result, so it will lack a lot of nonstandard RNA tricks that these companies are or might be using, like pseudouridines, or fluorobases. I think those would have to be disclosed in the patent.

Re: Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]

#25
Wow Looks like it is analogous to having a header on a TCP packet. [0] Here is an animation of mRNA encoding translated to proteins inside a ribosome. [1]

"The ribosome is composed of one large and one small sub unit that assemble around the messenger RNA, which then passes through the ribosome like a computer tape. The amino acid building blocks, that's the small glowing red molecules, are carried into the ribosome attached to specific transfer RNAs; that's the larger green molecules also referred to as tRNA. The small sub unit of the ribosome positions the mRNA so that it can be read in groups of three letters known as a codon."

Very analogous indeed.

[0] https://xerocrypt.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/how-to-read-almos...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfYf_rPWUdY

Re: Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]

#27
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We aren’t that different from machines, we just need to know more about the CPU and all the co-processors and how the logic gates interact But for now we can inject code to trigger protein configuration via the immune system

Does that mean a cytokine storm is the equivalent of a buffer overflow or a DoS?

Cytokine storm would perhaps be like the user deleting random necessary OS executables in an attempt to get rid of malware

Re: Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]

#30

We are simply programmable machines, its pretty interesting that all of human life can be reduced down to 30k editable microservices.

That gives me the feeling that those reflexion models could do some help for improving our understanding of those microservices
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