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[Linkpost] Prac­ti­cally-A-Book Re­view: Root­claim $100,000 Lab Leak Debate

trevorMar 28, 2024, 4:03 PM
77 points
22 comments2 min readLW link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

Biolog­i­cal risk from the mir­ror world

jasoncrawfordDec 12, 2024, 7:07 PM
333 points
37 comments7 min readLW link
(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

Public Weights?

jefftkNov 2, 2023, 2:50 AM
49 points
19 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Defend­ing against hy­po­thet­i­cal moon life dur­ing Apollo 11

eukaryoteJan 7, 2024, 4:49 AM
57 points
9 comments32 min readLW link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Biose­cu­rity Cul­ture, Com­puter Se­cu­rity Culture

jefftkAug 30, 2023, 4:40 PM
103 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The AI Revolu­tion in Biology

Roman LeventovMay 26, 2024, 9:30 AM
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.cognitiverevolution.ai)

Joseph Bloom on choos­ing AI Align­ment over bio, what many as­piring re­searchers get wrong, and more (in­ter­view)

Sep 17, 2023, 6:45 PM
27 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Moder­ately Skep­ti­cal of “Risks of Mir­ror Biol­ogy”

DavidmanheimDec 20, 2024, 12:57 PM
32 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(substack.com)

De­tec­tion of Asymp­tomat­i­cally Spread­ing Pathogens

jefftkDec 5, 2024, 6:20 PM
45 points
8 comments7 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

My Mid-Ca­reer Tran­si­tion into Biosecurity

jefftkOct 2, 2023, 9:20 PM
26 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Real biosafety is so­cially inconvenient

ChristianKlApr 2, 2022, 6:50 PM
33 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How has the to­tal amount of gain-of-func­tion re­search wor­ld­wide grown/​shrunk over time?

johnswentworthMay 19, 2022, 3:57 PM
29 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Out-of-dis­tri­bu­tion Bioattacks

jefftkDec 2, 2023, 12:20 PM
66 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Se­quenc­ing Intro

jefftkAug 29, 2022, 5:50 PM
39 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Case Rates to Se­quenc­ing Reads

jefftkSep 21, 2022, 2:00 AM
15 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Linkpost] “In­ten­sity and fre­quency of ex­treme novel epi­demics” by Mar­i­ani et al. (2021)

T431Sep 28, 2022, 3:31 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 10/​20/​22: Wait, We Did WHAT?

ZviOct 20, 2022, 9:50 PM
55 points
16 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Offense-Defense Balance of Gene Drives

Maxwell TabarrokSep 27, 2024, 4:47 PM
23 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

En­hanc­ing biose­cu­rity with lan­guage mod­els: defin­ing re­search directions

micMar 26, 2024, 12:30 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(papers.ssrn.com)

Far-UVC Light Up­date: No, LEDs are not around the cor­ner (tweet­storm)

DavidmanheimNov 2, 2022, 12:57 PM
71 points
27 comments4 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

In­ter­cept ar­ti­cle about lab accidents

ChristianKlNov 7, 2022, 9:10 PM
23 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(theintercept.com)

Bench­mark­ing Bowtie2 Threading

jefftkDec 1, 2023, 8:20 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Why not con­strain wet­labs in­stead of AI?

Lone PineMar 21, 2023, 6:02 PM
15 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly In­ci­dence In­clud­ing Delay

jefftkSep 20, 2023, 2:00 PM
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Why I got the smal­l­pox vac­cine in 2023

joecOct 2, 2023, 5:11 AM
25 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Hu­man tri­als for the Mar­burg vac­cine: fund­ing op­por­tu­nity?

americanwalrusJul 27, 2022, 5:53 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.independent.co.uk)

Res­lab Re­quest for In­for­ma­tion: EA hard­ware projects

Joel BeckerOct 26, 2022, 9:13 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

AI as a Civ­i­liza­tional Risk Part 4/​6: Bioweapons and Philos­o­phy of Modification

PashaKamyshevNov 1, 2022, 8:50 PM
7 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

[Question] H5N1. Just how bad is the situ­a­tion?

Q HomeJul 8, 2023, 10:09 PM
16 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

RAND re­port finds no effect of cur­rent LLMs on vi­a­bil­ity of bioter­ror­ism attacks

StellaAthenaJan 25, 2024, 7:17 PM
94 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(www.rand.org)

Day Zero An­tivirals for Fu­ture Pandemics

Niko_McCartyAug 26, 2024, 3:18 PM
22 points
2 comments10 min readLW link
(www.asimov.press)

Ap­ply to at­tend a Global Challenges Pro­ject work­shop in 2025!

LiamEDec 11, 2024, 12:41 AM
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

AI and Chem­i­cal, Biolog­i­cal, Ra­diolog­i­cal, & Nu­clear Hazards: A Reg­u­la­tory Review

May 10, 2024, 8:41 AM
7 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

The Dangers of Mir­rored Life

Dec 12, 2024, 8:58 PM
119 points
7 comments29 min readLW link
(www.asimov.press)

Last Line of Defense: Min­i­mum Vi­able Shelters for Mir­ror Bacteria

Ulrik HornDec 21, 2024, 8:28 AM
11 points
26 comments21 min readLW link

How to solve the mi­suse prob­lem as­sum­ing that in 10 years the de­fault sce­nario is that AGI agents are ca­pa­ble of syn­thetiz­ing pathogens

jeremttiNov 27, 2024, 9:17 PM
6 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Po­lio Lab Leak Caught with Wastew­a­ter Sampling

CullenApr 7, 2023, 1:06 AM
82 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

WHO Biolog­i­cal Risk warning

Jonas KgomoApr 25, 2023, 3:10 PM
−6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Scal­able And Trans­fer­able Black-Box Jailbreaks For Lan­guage Models Via Per­sona Modulation

Nov 7, 2023, 5:59 PM
38 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Do you want a first-prin­ci­pled pre­pared­ness guide to pre­pare your­self and loved ones for po­ten­tial catas­tro­phes?

Ulrik HornNov 14, 2023, 12:13 PM
16 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

A call for a quan­ti­ta­tive re­port card for AI bioter­ror­ism threat models

JunoDec 4, 2023, 6:35 AM
12 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Hash­marks: Pri­vacy-Pre­serv­ing Bench­marks for High-Stakes AI Evaluation

Paul BricmanDec 4, 2023, 7:31 AM
12 points
6 comments16 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Biosafety Reg­u­la­tions (BMBL) and their rele­vance for AI

Štěpán LosJun 29, 2023, 7:22 PM
4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Biose­cu­rity and AI: Risks and Opportunities

Steve NewmanFeb 27, 2024, 6:45 PM
11 points
1 comment7 min readLW link
(www.safe.ai)

Scal­ing and Sus­tain­ing Stan­dards: A Case Study on the Basel Accords

Conrad K.Jul 16, 2023, 10:01 PM
8 points
1 comment7 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Weekly In­ci­dence vs Cu­mu­la­tive Infections

jefftkSep 7, 2023, 2:30 AM
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)
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