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There’s this whole section about biosecurity and how AI is going to help malicious actors synthesize nucleic acid(gotta get the word count up I guess is why they don’t say DNA)

Then in the recommended policies it references multiple times that there will be nucleic acid testing set up to catch malicious “customers”

Is this policy targeted towards the Covid lab leak conspiracy or are they just aiming for officially collecting everyone’s DNA samples?

Maybe both





No it's a longtermism ideology thing. For whatever reason they're terrified of some idea of "garage bio warfare" but have absolutely no understanding of how biology actually works so they've zeroed in on the idea that it's just: synthesize DNA -> superplague.

You must have not got the memo. The covid lab leak conspiracy theory turned out to be probably true and an actual conspiracy.

> Is this policy targeted towards the Covid lab leak conspiracy or are they just aiming for officially collecting everyone’s DNA samples?

I did not use the word “theory” in my comment




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