Bruce Schneider’s competition and the lack of any scenario put into reality would be a central argument that this problem isn’t central.
That doesn’t mean that it doesn’t matter at all, it’s just that it’s not the central problem. Nick Bostrom does write about gain-of-function research in his infohazard writings. It seems to me that he thought he addressed that topic, but he didn’t address it in a way that prevented the most important harm.
Bruce Schneider’s competition and the lack of any scenario put into reality would be a central argument that this problem isn’t central.
That doesn’t mean that it doesn’t matter at all, it’s just that it’s not the central problem. Nick Bostrom does write about gain-of-function research in his infohazard writings. It seems to me that he thought he addressed that topic, but he didn’t address it in a way that prevented the most important harm.