hahahahahahaha whats the worst thing that could happen? a superpower decides to funnel money into generating tailored antigens and releasing them for bespoke germ warfare? ha ha hahttps://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1412879629090758657 …
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depending on whats in the dataset there are lots of other fun things you can do with massive amounts of genome data but im not sure why a military would want it unless theyre going full Lange Kerlehttps://twitter.com/KimbrikiOf/status/1412901593800790016?s=19 …
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except it very much is feasible, theres likely a few genes in certain ethnic pops that aren't shared by other release a virus that doesn't react to anything with those genes, and your nation almost entirely has those...
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There's no other reason to collect this information
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There's lots of reasons, many of which are listed in the article. The custom virus thing is by far the most cool dystopian scifi and also the least likely to be feasible.
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I expect its probably eminently feasible or will be shortly. this is just epistemic CYA
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Funnily enough, Lewontin's fallacy of all things makes it infeasible (IMO). Population groups cannot be reliably distinguished using a small number of alleles, and you can't pack much complexity - i.e. basically information about distribution of alleles - into a tailored virus.
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not sure about this many cases in history where either (i) endemic diseases absolutely slaughtered invading armies without hard-won genetic resistance, or (ii) invaders brought novel contagion to unexposed populations and devastated them
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