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Comment Re:Truly radical, or by accepted dogma? (Score 1) 83

you ignoring the part where reports say things like "if confirmed, this result means..." or "According to senior scientist x, further work is needed to see if this conclusion holds up."

That is too optimistic on the listening.

A lot of people out there only heard "stay six feet away from people" and logicked, "What, a disease can only travel six feet then it drops dead?" No scientist said anything remotely close to that, but that is the reasoning people ended up with because they weren't listening at all.

Comment Re:Suggests abiogenesis is easy (Score 1) 83

But if not that, it'll be nukes or biotech [slashdot.org].

I was thinking about the biotech, and creating a disease that will kill a bunch of people is easy enough that it will almost certainly happen.

On the other hand, creating a disease that will kill all humans is not easy. It's actually quite difficult. Which doesn't make you feel better if you run into a disease that kills you, but unselfishly I guess we should feel good about humanity?

Comment Re: Could we be any more stupid? (Score 1) 74

lolhaha except most scientists are skeptical of the possibility of a laboratory origin, citing a lack of any supporting evidence for a lab leak and the abundant evidence supporting zoonosis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The citations for that statement on Wikipedia are all from 2021 or 2020, and are likely out of date.

Comment Re:remember WarGames? (Score 1) 48

Your AI bot has no capacity to know that the "test environment" and the "live internet" are different things.

It shouldn't be hard to include something like that in the training data.

Ignoring whether these agents can have "concepts" or "knowledge," either way it can certainly have the ability to treat a test environment differently than the live internet.

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