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So… we can’t?

People working in labs today must be speeding up nature significantly on a daily basis. Perform lots of concurrent experiments, apply different environmental stresses, provide different nutrition, cross different variants you find useful, automate all the processes and tests. I think the project referenced seems to be deliberately not doing that, to observe the natural speed of change.

We can't today, but maybe in the future.

So we can’t

That's pretty weird position.

Eg I can fly to Hong Kong. Not today, because I haven't booked a flight and it's getting late, but probably in the next few days, if I really wanted to. You'd say that I "can't"?

It is currently feasible for anyone, with the right resources, to fly to Hong Kong.

It is not currently feasible for anyone to speed up or simulate nature in silico.

These are quite different positions, the idea that you would equivocate them frankly is bizarre

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