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This is great information, thank you so much!

So, after taking some time to digest this information, I have a couple of follow-up questions, if you don't mind answering them.

First of all, where do things stand with drugs? Is it just not something academics are working on, but presumably being done (or already finished) within proprietary institutions (e.g. Big Pharma)? Can you point me to some recent papers on the subject?

~~Secondly, what about enzymes? Binding proteins are interesting, certainly, but it's enzymes that really excite me the most. Is anyone working on custom enzyme design, and if so, can you link some papers on that?~~ In looking more closely at that Nature paper, I see that enzymes are something of a work-in-progress as yet. If you have anything else on the subject, I'd welcome that, but if there's nothing else of note there, that's fine.

Thank you for mentioning this to begin with, by the way, I really appreciate the info you've already shared!

Awesome, thanks!

I doubt people are aware that rn biologists are close to making designer proteins on like home pc and soon you can wage designer biological warfare for 500k and a small lab. Or conversely, making drugs for any protein-function related disease.

Please elaborate in as much detail as possible, ideally with numerous hyperlinks. (I'm less surprised by this than you might think, but would greatly appreciate being clued into what's going on in this arena right now, as I've been largely cut off from information about it for years now.)

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This is so asinine. ChaptGPT-4 does not reason. It does not decide. It does not provide instructtions. What it does is write text based on a prompt. That's it. This headline is complete nonsense.

And then once they're done, both Chinas could build another China each. Then there would be FOUR CHINAS.

It's not "both sides" to accept the reality of the situation.

This is you, 42 minutes ago:

both sides are terrorists

Anyway, I'm done. Enjoy being a stooge for genocidal powers you say you don't support. If this were a post on my home instance I'd be a lot more rude right now; as it is, all I'll say is that this experience, for me, is best encapsulated in this emote:

Ooo, I can play this game too: https://hexbear.net/post/251036

Why would I need to check your history? You're both-sides-ing a settler-colonialist genocide here. Hamas's goal is fighting off the Zionist entity, not genocide, and your acceptance of that horseshit claim makes clear that you believe anything the Western media tells you, hence your appeal to the authority of "experts" (all of whom are doubtless employed by, or at minimum enthusiastically on the side of, Western media companies or militaries) on this particular claim, rather than any independent thought.

PS: Since you're so dependent on "experts," here's some that argue the opposing side: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/19/what-hit-ahli-hospital-in-gaza https://www.channel4.com/news/who-was-behind-the-gaza-hospital-blast-visual-investigation

No one who believes the (absurd and obviously false, in this case) lies of genocidal monsters is on the side of the Palestinians, full stop, especially if you think it's wrong for Hamas to use violence against the oppressors.

PS: I love how you're more ready to be skeptical of Palestinians claims about number of deaths than you are of Israeli claims of innocence.