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Saturday, July 17, 2021
CONTEXT: If “Lab accidents happen” Should We Have Viral Gain-of-Function Labs at All?
You either don't have labs like that, at all. Or you get into a belief state where "lab accidents happen" is not a thing you can say with a straight face. That is not Precautionary Principle bullshit, that is straight expected value calculations.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky (@ESYudkowsky) July 16, 2021
This period in history will be called, in retrospect, “the bonfire of the experts”.
Posted at July 17, 2021 13:24