RSI won't revolutionize wet-lab virology: a lab alone costs ~$100M and a year to build
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-09-14
- David Bellamy pushed back on the idea that RSI — accelerating hill-climbing on verifiable, digital-only benchmarks like programming and math — could transform wet-lab virology, calling it delusional.
- His math: procuring the machines for such a hypothetical lab would take the better part of a year and $100M; operating it autonomously requires API integration the industry has chased for decades. Most lab equipment ships without APIs, so bad actors would need to reverse-engineer firmware to integrate it.
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