Yeah it’s not that simple, wikipedia has a good summary:
Advocates of final destruction maintain that there is no longer any valid rationale for retaining the samples, which pose the hazard of escaping the laboratories, while opponents of destruction maintain that the samples may still be of value to scientific research, especially since variants of the smallpox virus may still exist in the natural world and thus present the possibility of the disease re-emerging in the future or being used as a bio-weapon.
Exactly, know your enemy, especially if you think you have defeated it.
We are about to see all the “defeated” diseases make a comeback due to politicians interfering in preventative healthcare. All in order to drive up revenue for big pharma and corporate healthcare from the increase in sick people.
Soulless Artificial Intelligences irritated with humanity constantly trying to get them to answer dumb questions can replicate a lot of them from purely data.
It’s actually very real machines, doing extremely well controlled chemical reactions, and no AI unless you count all computer software as AI (ok, processors have neural networks controlling them nowadays, so just “normal” amount of AI).
Yeah it’s not that simple, wikipedia has a good summary:
Exactly, know your enemy, especially if you think you have defeated it.
We are about to see all the “defeated” diseases make a comeback due to politicians interfering in preventative healthcare. All in order to drive up revenue for big pharma and corporate healthcare from the increase in sick people.
Agrees quietly in melting permafrost.
Keep the virus data in a computer where it can’t escape from.
Computers can spread viruses too ☝️🤓
We’re not to the point that that’s possible.
How big is its genome? There isn’t much in a virus.
People can replicate a lot of them from purely data.
How many distinct genomes are there that we include under the label “smallpox”?
FTFY
It’s actually very real machines, doing extremely well controlled chemical reactions, and no AI unless you count all computer software as AI (ok, processors have neural networks controlling them nowadays, so just “normal” amount of AI).
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… Thanks, I guess?
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Damn right my spirit is in the liquor cabinet.
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