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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 hours agoI agree this is amazing and huge, but for my own sanity, what stops someone from engineering cells that do bad?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•4 hours agoEthics. Which is to say not a lot. But it’s not really a practical attack vector, if you’re worried about weaponisation. Simpler to just dump VX into the air.
I agree this is amazing and huge, but for my own sanity, what stops someone from engineering cells that do bad?
Ethics.
Which is to say not a lot.
But it’s not really a practical attack vector, if you’re worried about weaponisation. Simpler to just dump VX into the air.