[JumpCrisscross]

> it's speed bump at best

To be fair, speed bumps work. If it's actually speed bumping nefarious activity, that gives authorities more time to react.

The correct place to police rogue nucleotides is at the labs. Not the compute layer.

[hparadiz]

> speed bumps work

Yea. To slow you down. They don't prevent you from getting somewhere.

[JumpCrisscross]

> To slow you down. They don't prevent you from getting somewhere

Again, yeah. That's how fences work, too. And alarm systems. Pretty much anything that isn't foolproof. Pointing out that a defence is surmountable isn't a rejection of it per se.

[joxdosba]

Fences and speed bumps are hilarious defences if we are supposed to believe AI companies about the dangers of this technology.

Having no safeguards is probably safer than having safeguards which do nothing but create a false sense of security.

[JumpCrisscross]

Idk, whether we believe them or not, I believe the life scientists who are calling for regulation around the labs that produce DNA sequences. If they’re concerned, regardless of whether I trust the AI labs, speed bumps could help by giving those scientists a reasonably window in which to be notified and act.