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		printerphobia2 on Sept 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI acknowledges new models increase risk of mi... in theory you can print out any virus given the sequence which you can find just from googling (e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/1798174254 attaaaggtt...)

inciampati on Sept 14, 2024 [–]

Then you have to boot it up. Bio equivalent of putting the lightning in the rock (semiconductors). The DNA is like the lightning (like the code) the rock is the biological system you drop it into to run it. Booting viruses is not super easy.

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