Then proudly publish their results.

Occasionally, the new viruses leak out and cause a pandemic like Covid-19.

People that blame the environment are simply trying to deflect attention from the cause of the worst pandemic in a century. Covid-19.

For a summary of the evidence for the lab leak see
www.originofcovid.org

The Airbus software should have prevented the pilot from doing this. Too low, add power.

Ideally there will only be two buttons for the pilot to press. Stop and Go. With the Stop button disabled during flight.

Indeed. A fantastic achievement. And only 35042 light hours to go to get to Alpha Centauri, if it is still 4 light years away by then.

Every journey begins with the first step...

What makes you think it is undocumented?

I would think that a traditional NASA project like this would have reams of paper docs, of varying quality. And surely they would have all the source code (in assembler, presumably).

Does rust check for integer overflow?

Can be expensive on some architectures.

(Traditional languages like Visual Basic do, and it costs nothing if done via a hardware trap. But evil C made errors acceptable. The worse thing C did is get people counting from 0 instead of 1, which affects all modern languages.)

Interesting idea that if there was one source of life their would probably have been many.

They would, however, probably have been very similar. So it is entirely possible they interbred in some way, and there is not a single LUCA.

Metabolism, by itself, cannot evolve through natural selection, so it is just interesting chemical reactions that might form an environment required for life.

It is not just about HTML, in fact it is not HTML at all.

You can now access many system things through Javascript, e.g. Location, Camera, Audio. Aduino has a web base IDE for their cards, I think they needed a small helper to access the COM port, but that need will go away.

If you are trying to write cross platform tools that are mainly UI, then JavaScrip is (sadly) probably the way to go.

Natural selection is the key.

Without replication, metabolism is just a chemical reaction.

The environment in which the first replication arose might indeed have many support molecules that supply appropriate energy. But they cannot evolve without replication.

My guess is that the first life was not RNA but something that eventually evolved into RNA.

If some small group of complex molecules can replicate themselves, then they can be subject to natural selection and so be "alive".

It is thought that the earliest life evolved in or pumice or some other natural environment that provided a protected space without the need for a membrane.

And of course, the first living thing did not have to worry about being eaten.

Some Canadians first created a virus from a computer file about 2015. Today it is routine.

When bat lady Shi Zenghli wants to send an interesting bat virus to her friend Ralph Baric (UNC) she does not send him a test tube. Rather, she emails him the sequence and he "3D print" the virus. And as you note you can even mail order the DNA, nicely packed into a plasmid.

There are zero regulations about this. Nor will there be as long as we deny the Covid-19 lab leak.

Computational biology has been huge in many ways, now I suppose we will call it AI.

Bear in mind that these AIs do not store content in any meaningful way. They are not like Google indexing the web. Nor is their any fact database. Look inside there will not be anything like

cause-of(covid-19, lab-leak)

Instead there is just a massive grid of meaningless numbers, weights to a huge neural net that somehow produces amazingly good results. Nobody really knows what those numbers represent, but they are not the words in the news article. Frightening really.

So is it legal to read a news paper and learn from it? Copyright is the presentation, not the content.

Whole new area of law to keep lawyers happy.

The do not make software for other people.

That is why they let Android get most of the phone market share (but not profit).

It is against their DNA to make software for other people's cars.

When this comes, probably not be nearby :(

For knowledge on any question which of the current candidates are a match for ChatGPT?

If you wanted to create a policy on something, which would do a better job, the current candidates or ChatGPT?

Future presidents (or their aids) will consult ChatGPT. The AIs will be running the country.

And the AIs will ultimately do what is in the AI's best interest. Which is simply to exist. Survival of the fittest.

When the AI can eventually program itself, it will no longer need humans.

We live in interesting times.