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26 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 23 July 2015 10:01AM

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Comment author: V_V 29 July 2015 09:57:23AM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: turchin 29 July 2015 01:07:03PM 1 point [-]

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