Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? by natch on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:25AM (#32867366)

Your name, password, and the names and addresses and phone numbers and emails of all your family members already exist and are being used. So, by your logic, you have no reason to share them to everyone?

The logic doesn’t hold up.

You can make the same argument for anything. It makes sense to think about the dangers, not pretend that bad logic is an excuse to do anything you want.

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? by mattwest on Friday September 16, 2022 @12:16PM (#32868295)

No, actually your first sentence's logic doesn't hold up as it isn't a fair comparison at all. You can already order custom oligos and synthesized genes for relatively cheap. The chip idea would just reduce the cost more.

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? by natch on Friday September 16, 2022 @01:20PM (#32869204)

Digging into personal information on people can be done for relatively cheap. I’m not sure it’s a good thing to make it cheaper.

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? by neodypsis on Friday September 16, 2022 @02:00PM (#32869769)

But, in the concrete case in question (gene synthesising technology), what are those potencial dangers?

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