You would be happy about more people blogging about bioweapon design? Hmm.
I think you don’t realize quite how much danger we are all in from a bad actor developing and releasing bioweapons. More information about that on the internet would make it easier for people to google it, and would make more training data about it available to future to LLMs. I can’t see how that’s anything but bad for humanity.
I don’t think you are saying that you want to murder billions of innocent people or destroy modern civilization, but it seems like you are arguing for something that would make it easier for people to do those things.
Bioweapon Biological research is dual-use technology. I believe there are many great things people can achieve if knowledge and capabilities in this field were widely accessible instead of being restricted to powerful well-resourced groups as they are now, the most obvious of which is at-home drug synthesis, but includes biohacking/gene therapies, engineered foods, designer babies, gene drives (to eradicate mosquitoes), deëxtinction (to bring them back). I also expect there’d be clever applications I haven’t thought of, but someone else will; I do not believe myself to be smarter than the rest of mankind put together. Basically anything the FDA would regulate and inhibit, I hope to see democratized[1] beyond its reach.
I wouldn’t describe myself as having any particular desire to “murder billions of innocent people.” I estimate I’m well within 3-sigma of the mean by that metric, entirely unremarkable.
I am also emphatically against any kind of “degrowth” or primitivism, so if that’s what you mean by “destroy modern civilization,” I’m at perhaps 5-sigma in the opposite direction. But if you instead mean something like the abolition of the Administrative State, yeah, that’s something I am strongly in favor of.
You would be happy about more people blogging about bioweapon design? Hmm.
I think you don’t realize quite how much danger we are all in from a bad actor developing and releasing bioweapons. More information about that on the internet would make it easier for people to google it, and would make more training data about it available to future to LLMs. I can’t see how that’s anything but bad for humanity.
I don’t think you are saying that you want to murder billions of innocent people or destroy modern civilization, but it seems like you are arguing for something that would make it easier for people to do those things.
BioweaponBiological research is dual-use technology. I believe there are many great things people can achieve if knowledge and capabilities in this field were widely accessible instead of being restricted to powerful well-resourced groups as they are now, the most obvious of which is at-home drug synthesis, but includes biohacking/gene therapies, engineered foods, designer babies, gene drives (to eradicate mosquitoes), deëxtinction(to bring them back). I also expect there’d be clever applications I haven’t thought of, but someone else will; I do not believe myself to be smarter than the rest of mankind put together. Basically anything the FDA would regulate and inhibit, I hope to see democratized[1] beyond its reach.I wouldn’t describe myself as having any particular desire to “murder billions of innocent people.” I estimate I’m well within 3-sigma of the mean by that metric, entirely unremarkable.
I am also emphatically against any kind of “degrowth” or primitivism, so if that’s what you mean by “destroy modern civilization,” I’m at perhaps 5-sigma in the opposite direction. But if you instead mean something like the abolition of the Administrative State, yeah, that’s something I am strongly in favor of.
I hope at this point, it’s clear I mean empowering individuals and not the “democratically elected governments” that rule them.