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.
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.