A man in Germany got 217 covid jabs over the last 2 years and is doing fine. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/06/health/covid-217-shots-hypervaccination-lancet/index.html
Also I have been eating foods containing DNA every day of my life without any bad effects. But I wonder how we will respond to existential threats in the future, like genetically engineered pathogens or self replicating nanotechnology. The vaccine was the one bright spot in our mostly bungled response to covid-19. We have never before developed a vaccine to a novel disease this fast, just over a year from identifying the virus to widespread distribution. Of course it is impossible to know the long term effects of any medical intervention without long term testing. It is a necessary risk, but it paid off this time saving several million lives, in part by forcing the virus to evolve into a less virulent form. It is unfortunate that the response became political due to policy inertia. It makes no sense to restrict travel across borders when the disease is already endemic on both sides. But nobody loses their job for following the same policy as everyone else. We should be mistrusting the politicians, not the scientists who are telling us how the disease spreads. Self replicating nanotechnology displacing DNA based life is at least a century away at the rate of Moore's law. Engineered pathogens are closer, but unlikely to cause human extinction because it is really hard to test them secretly and achieve a 100% fatality rate, rather than 99.9%. The most immediate threat from AI is that we prefer its company to humans and stop reproducing. We are witnessing the transition from human generated social media to human moderated to AI moderated to AI generated. The good thing about AI censorship is that it happens without anyone being aware of it. That's also the bad thing. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T991e2940641e8052-M0284a2d3641fb00ad7bed534 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
