Interesting Links for 27-12-2022

[andrewducker]

1. There's no law against printing up some Ebola genes and posting them to someone. Maybe there should be

(tags:genetics safety )

2. Here's your goal for 2023!

(tags:goals writing )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

2. gosh, that guy sounds on course for either glory or a mental and physical breakdown if you read further

[andrewducker]

I do not think he is even slightly serious, despite his protestations.

[cellio]

(I haven't read the thread, just the first tweet.) Well, it used to be harder, but now ChatGPT can help you get it done!

[nancylebov]

I've been background worried about home build-a-virus kits for a long time.

[armiphlage]

Agreed. It's even a bigger threat than chemical weapons.

Anyone with university-level chemistry training (or even a bright high school student studying on their own) can make chemical weapons. Many chemical engineers spend their careers trying to NOT accidentally make chemical weapons as an intermediate or secondary product of their processes. The (thankfully) few people that have deliberately home-brewed chemical weapons have had their effect limited by the size of apparatus and the amount of precursor chemicals they can afford to buy. Those rich enough to manufacture and deploy enough chemical weapons to destroy a country won't do so, on the grounds that they can probably just buy the country itself.

But with biological weapons, anyone that can afford a car can afford to create a pandemic.

[melchar]

I agree. This is absolutely terrifying. The standard post could even be used as a delivery vehicle. The future is getting darker by the day.