[ExI] 23andSingularity

[Mike Dougherty]

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 12:54 AM, spike <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
> It occurred to me that we could program something like a will to figure out
> an enormous but very specific question: how are all the carbon units on
> 23andMe related?
>
>
> We might not even be able to figure out how the code discovered the genetic
> links: it was given a goal to find them, along with a bucket of techniques
> like what I did in the fourth paragraph, and off it went.  Then most people
> on the planet, or rather most westerners, could just give it a DNA sample
> and it could hand you back your entire genome history map, including all
> anomalies, within minutes.
>
> Oooh my, is this cool, or what?

yeah, it's cool in the sense "wow, the possibility exists and we can do it"

Not cool in the sense that those with the resources ARE doing it; for
their benefit.

Facebork's whole business plan is selling the network of who's who
(and what's what?)

And what of that govt operation named after the triangular optics that
refracts light?