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himata4113today at 1:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

Well the real issue is that it knocks down the knowledge barrier, giving your step by step guides and reinterating what parts will kill you is the important part.

Understanding and staying alive while producing neuro chemicals are the biggest challenges here.

A depressed person with no prior knowledge could possibly figure out a way to make these chemicals without killing themselves and that's the problem.


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WarmWashtoday at 2:08 PM

A Michelin chef can give you their recipe, and give you their ingredients, but you still will fail miserably trying to match their dish.

It's the same with drugs, whose instructions and ingredient lists have been a google search away for decades now. Yet you still need a master chemist to produce anything. By the time AI can hand hold an idiot through the synthesis of VX agents (which would require an array of sensors beyond a keyboard and camera), we will likely have bigger issues to worry about.

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jsmith99today at 2:04 PM

They can do that by jailbreaking models but is that really easier and less work than getting it from Wikipedia?

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