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siva7yesterday at 11:53 PM3 repliesview on HN

The alternative of... saving lives?


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SepiaSapienttoday at 5:41 AM

Didn't you know? Lab work being a skill is fake news. Jimmy Schoolshooter can make a couple of kilos of Anthrax in an afternoon with our cool genie.

Remember to buy the IPO!

baqtoday at 5:17 AM

It doesn’t take too much apparently to tweak a virus

anigbrowltoday at 1:36 AM

They don't want the real risk of someone using it to make biological or genetically targeted weapons, and they don't want the social risk of someone asking it a bunch of leading questions in order to 'prove' some racist thesis or to 'prove' Mythos is woke if it declines to along with their performative inquiry.

Let's face it, if some rando comes up to and asks if you have a few minutes to talk about population biology there's a good chance they're a kook.