turchin comments on Steelmaning AI risk critiques - Less Wrong Discussion
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Just imagine a Stuxnet-style computer virus which will find DNA-synthesisers and print different viruses on each of them, calculating exact DNA mutations for hundreds different flu strains.
You can't manufacture new flu stains with just by just hacking a DNA synthesizer, And anyway, most of non-intelligently created flu strains would be non-viable or non-lethal.
I mean that the virus will be as intelligent as human bioligist, may be EM. It is enough for virus synthesis but not for personal self-imprivement