| > Will the output of your product add a suicide timer to a cell? Absolutely not. > Will the output of your product prevent the cells from procreating/multiplying? Absolutely not. > Will the output of your product prevent pathogen creation? Strictly defined as the output being a chip, absolutely does not. > Will the output of your product require a specific, unnatural energy source that can only be man made? Absolutely not. > Professionals take great care in thinking about those problems I am a professional in this field, and have been thinking about these problems quite deeply (if you check on my website, my first time writing about my concern for these problems was back in 2014). I have developed opinions on this over the years, but roughly they come down to the fact that many folks have a gross misunderstanding of the field in general, but quite like to think that they understand what is going on. For example, I mentioned I wanted to do oligo pool synthesis - how the hell would the output of an oligo pool synth run add a suicide timer? Or prevent replication? Or require a certain kind of energy source? In the context of the stated goal, these objections really don't make any sense. It is roughly equivalent to someone wanting to run a mining company and getting countered by "will the output of your product stop school shootings?". Perhaps better questions are along the lines of - how are oligos matching biohazard sequences prevented from being synthesized? Well, this is a question of both governmental policy (what IS a biohazardous sequence?) and of the integrated device (does it phone home for each synthesized sequence? What about hardware hacking?). |