Raw LLM Responses

17:47 That's an interesting problem to pose... don't think the nitty gritty of biotech is actually relevant to the discussion. But since it was raised... I feel like it's _theoretically_ feasible, even today. First you have to figure out what cells the strawberry has, in which quantities and distributions. I think the tools for that exist and are sufficiently accurate, they just might be expensive? There are lots of different ways to approach that problem but it doesn't really matter. It's not something that requires ASI, not even close imho, and it is something that we have enough knowledge and data to teach an AI to work on it. Of course the real challenge is making the "clone". Different ways to approach that too. But whichever way you approach it, it's a lot more labor intensive than it is intelligence intensive. A lot of scientific and engineering challenges are like this. The other kind of problem is, say, Einstein coming up with special relativity, which wasn't took one person, idk, months to a few years? Anyways - do you want to start with a few cells and have them replicate in the right ways to create the strawberry? Well, that would be the holy grail of synthetic food, synthetic organs, etc. We aren't near doing that yet. However, I think discovering the techniques to do it is a tractable problem, and one we are making progress towards all the time. You have to fully understand the strawberry species from the genome out, which is a lot of work, and then find out how to manipulate the existing development and growth mechanisms into producing the exact structure you want. But based on what we can already do in biology and biotech - that would not require anything approaching a special-relativity-like breakthrough. But given how the problem was defined, could you manually construct it, cell by cell, layer by layer, kind of like a very cautious 3D printer? I think that's theoretically feasible today, just a shitload of work. Some cells would die or otherwise fail. You'd have to cheat a little to keep the cells alive long enough to complete the whole thing, using hormones and mRNA and the like to keep the cells doing what you want, which is staying put, not reproducing, not changing, not dying, etc. But you could do it. But then, you could try something mid way - grow pieces of tissue, isolate the pieces that match your structure, graft them together. Or even place cells on the strawberry under construction, let them replicate a few times in situ, then make them stop, rinse, repeat. That approach might get the job done with today's knowledge, but it would take... idk... years of preparatory research, followed by months of trial and error, and finally making the actual strawberry would take... weeks? At least weeks. But you can't take too long or the inside would die or go off script. But with a large enough staff... You'd get the strawberry. It would not taste very good. Or at least it would taste kinda weird, and might have a weird texture too. Also, is genetic engineering cheating? Cause you do say "clone" which implies the DNA is completely identical. In all three approaches, genetic engineering is potentially very helpful, but you can accomplish the same with a lot more labor, and a lot more failed attempts.