'And it'll be used for good, right?'
the potentially hair-raising implications of holding all of humanity's DNA sequences in a small room.
"And it'll be used for good, right?" Natalie Portman's Padmé Amidala from "Star Wars Episode II" asks inAt least, that's one interpretation of Musk's comment. The billionaire CEO could also be simply pointing out how surprisingly small the cumulative data of all humans' DNA could turn out to be given the vast commonalities between them.
"One could simply have a few reference human genomes and simply code each individual with a lossless compression delta!"In simpler terms, why store common DNA information twice if one could reference the data shared by multiple human genomes? Sure, it's an eyebrow-raising comment from the likes of Musk. Collecting the DNA sequences of all living humans walking this Earth in one place could end in a disaster of unperceivable proportions if that data were to ever land in the wrong hands or be used for nefarious purposes.We'd certainly be better off if not.
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