Now imagine the code arose originally by random chance, happened to be self replicating and evolved over billions of generations to include mechanisms that both allow it to viable after small changes and allow those small changes to have large effects (due to selective pressure since diversity from mutations is advantageous to a point, especially in single celled organisms).
As an example, Some bacterial genomes are circular, code in both directions and have overlapping coding regions, and occasionally trade genetic material between species because why wouldn't they?
I've worked applying machine learning and statistics to genetics and I generally think it's pretty hilarious that many self declared rationalists think we need to worry about AI safety but declare scepticism of genetic engineering anti-scientific.
As an example, Some bacterial genomes are circular, code in both directions and have overlapping coding regions, and occasionally trade genetic material between species because why wouldn't they?
I've worked applying machine learning and statistics to genetics and I generally think it's pretty hilarious that many self declared rationalists think we need to worry about AI safety but declare scepticism of genetic engineering anti-scientific.