nuclear non proliferation [to the extent that it has been achieved] is probably harder than a ban on gain-of-function
that’s sufficient to prove Daniel’s original criticism of the OP—that governments can [probably] fail at something yet succeed at some harder thing.
(And on a tangent, I’d guess a salient warning shot—which the OP was conditioning on—would give the US + China strong incentives to discourage risky AI stuff.)
I agree with a lot of that. Still, if
that’s sufficient to prove Daniel’s original criticism of the OP—that governments can [probably] fail at something yet succeed at some harder thing.
(And on a tangent, I’d guess a salient warning shot—which the OP was conditioning on—would give the US + China strong incentives to discourage risky AI stuff.)