Hm, perhaps you have convinced me that I am omitting something important from my description of my mental models. I don’t think my internal mental models are as deeply messed up as our disagreements about these topics suggest they would be. But maybe they are?
I would indeed wave a slightly different magic wand, which is labeled “every government on Earth knows what gain-of-function research is and how to do it, if they didn’t already, but my government gets first crack at it for as long as they like and will ask for”. But that is a fundamentally different wand than the one you were asking about.
So probably the disconnect in emphasis comes down to my unusual political beliefs and the resulting wild divergence in political priorities.
Hm, perhaps you have convinced me that I am omitting something important from my description of my mental models. I don’t think my internal mental models are as deeply messed up as our disagreements about these topics suggest they would be. But maybe they are?
I would indeed wave a slightly different magic wand, which is labeled “every government on Earth knows what gain-of-function research is and how to do it, if they didn’t already, but my government gets first crack at it for as long as they like and will ask for”. But that is a fundamentally different wand than the one you were asking about.
So probably the disconnect in emphasis comes down to my unusual political beliefs and the resulting wild divergence in political priorities.
This last wand being approximately the bargain the Oppenheimer struck with the American government in running the Manhattan Project.