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> At The ODIN, we believe the future is going to be dominated by genetic engineering and consumer genetic design will be a big part of that. At LOKI, we believe the future is going to be dominated by nature protection and consumer behaviour reengineering will be a big part of that.
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don't you remember that the covid vaccine was invented by Americans? oh, wait a minute...
Actually yes, the technology for mRNA vaccines was largely invented in the United States starting in the 1980s. [0] It has since been refined by multiple international commercial teams. 0: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w
Dumb question, as a layman vaguely scared by easy access to this kind of tech: how easy is it to engineer bad stuff using these kits? (say, drug resistant bacteria)
Engineering “bad stuff” with kits like this is virtually impossible. Synthetic biology is still difficult and expensive, and what can be done without a large budget for massive , robotically automated trial and error is still very limited. That said, to help evolve antibiotic resistant bacteria all you have to do is not properly finish a course of antibiotics.
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Yes. There will be autonomous weapon platforms everywhere regardless of our desires, both from nation-states and non-state actors. To defend from them, you might want to understand how they work, and how they are built.
Oh, so that's what Odin is doing. Ensuring a safe, ethical future for our children. Autonomous weapons will literally be the result of our desires. Their absence could be as well, depending on what we do next. Making them go the way of bioweapons, blinding lasers or the neutron bomb will also require effective coordinated regulation, political will and cultural pressure, including publicly shaming those that seek to…
So, unless there is a global world peace forever, which I currently don't see happening any time soon, next generation weapons will be developed. If we are lucky, they will remain deterrents. If we are less lucky, they will be used in the actual world war, which has a very high probability of actually happening.
There were no instances of weapons regulated away, except for biological/chemical weapons which are less useful to developed countries. Nuclear weapons are still there. Landmines are still there. Cluster bombs are still used right now. No end in sight.
> At The ODIN, we believe the future is going to be dominated by genetic engineering and consumer genetic design will be a big part of that. At LOKI, we believe the future is going to be dominated by nature protection and consumer behaviour reengineering will be a big part of that.
Careful, you're at risk of being chained to a rock in a cave, with poison dripped on your head for an age...
As a parent of a child with a genetic disorder for which it is perfectly possible to develop a therapy using current technology, I'm delighted to see that biohackers are stirring things up. Let's hope this inspires the industry to rethink their approach to drug development.
> 70% of the world’s population was killed by NEOBOLA-26 but at least they signed the EULA. I’m making fun, but this is one class of knowledge I’m worried about. However, outlawing it doesn’t seem like a solution either.
Why isn't outlawing it the solution? Seems like a pretty good solution
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There have been efforts in the last decade to engineer yeast to produce lysergic acid ( https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/jun/21/scienti... ). Apparently, a group managed to introduce the complete pathway and published an article last year: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28386-6
That'd be some interesting beer