• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    9 months ago

    i get your fear, really, i do. ive never said it couldnt be abused. im saying dna is not private. its the worlds longest username.

    it is a finite dataset. it will be inevitably be mapped across the entire planet, and guess what, it will be public.

    you want to approach the Use of this data, go crazy. that is an important task.

    i am personally not going to go around pretending my code is special or valuable or not publicly available.

    you can do you, but at some point regardless of any activity on your part, you will be on the graph.

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      9 months ago

      Right so just because something might happen eventually doesn’t absolve anyone of what we do today.

      It is already understood that you don’t really have a right to privacy decades after your death. If someone wants to map out my DNA and sell it they can when I am dead and my kids are dead and my grandkids are dead with my blessing.

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        9 months ago

        ha no, this is happening today. we are catching criminals today that are tangentially related to dna samples in databases all over the place. its not going to be multiple decades after death. the more data added. the easier it is today to be able triangulate people already related to you. because at the heart of the matter, we are all related.

        the resolution will only get better in the next few years as we start slapping LLMs on it.

        your dna has no value.

        dna databases have value.

        i agree, no need to wait on extending anti-discrimination laws. lets do it yesterday.

        but again, my dna is not private, today.

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          9 months ago

          we are catching criminals today that are tangentially related to dna samples in databases all over the place.

          The pre-cogs have determined that you will commit murder in 20 years. Please do not resist when you are arrested for future crime.