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I think most people don't truly grasp how much this will change the world. IMO the advances in Synbio will be vastly more influential than the advances in AI (though AI is utilized heavily for the former)

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Both are too large in scope to really grasp. One has the power to make us all permanently redundant and unable to tell fact from fantasy[0] by being too good a story teller, the other can make them indistinguishable by making the fantasies[0] real.

[0] In the broadest sense that also includes nightmares

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