Yes, that's one of the ones I was talking about.
That's not a service that makes you a virus, and making one from an mRNA transcript is not trivial.
That's not a service that makes you a virus, and making one from an mRNA transcript is not trivial.
I'm just saying that people are focused on the wrong problem because they've got LLM-brain.
The people "got LLM-brain" are saying: "Wow those barriers are coming down fast"
And you're saying: "There are still barriers"
Both are true, but only one is helpful for thinking about the future. The other is hardly even helpful for thinking about the present, and I've never seen a quasi-intelligent person do it in lieu of some other motivations in their reasoning.
For each of the years below, what is YOUR estimate for how long would it take a person of 80th percentile intelligence with $10,000,000 (2026 money) to get from "I'd like to kill a lot of people" to a working virus?
You can provide a range for each if you'd like.
In the year 1800 – how long?
1950?
2020?
2026?
2050?
2200?