cartoon about pausing AI
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[+] 99 points 6 months ago (17 children)
  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I'll do you one better by just using logic. There is no more work needed for blinding lasers, you can pick up a battery powered IR setup for a few hundred dollars and strap it to a rifle, done. Recomb DNA actually is still being studied, allow me to gesture very broadly to ALL the shit we do with yeast and I dated a girl working with M. Maydis for treating breast cancer.

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  • [+] -27 points 6 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    I think you're confused, because not only am I agreeing with you, but none of the things I said should be confusing to anyone with a > 10th grade education.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    ZDL is confused. Human cloning? Easy, done. Not used, but well understood. You explained the lasers. Recombinant DNA? That is the basis of all current biotech outside of mRNA and CRISPR (which is also recombinant DNA, just very focused).

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I dunno what you're trying to argue. They accused me of using needlessly confusing language, that was what I was referring to.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Of course the problem is that you as the claimant have burden of proof.

    People who say this kind of thing about claims regarding government or industry-level activities have no clue about security classifications.

    How are you supposed to provide proof for something that is being deliberately withheld from the public?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago*

    I've got a blinding laser in my CD burner.

    Allegedly, a Dr in China was already creating designer babies, and recombinant DNA products exist (and therefore, the research to create those products is being done.) Hell, I've done my own recombinant DNA experiments in my bio labs during college.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not a particular fan of AI but I'm not naive enough to believe that research would stop just because everyone claimed it had.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    If AI can only be done in such secrecy that it's impossible to disprove then I'd call that a win.

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