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#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks
Lex Fridman Podcast
Vaccines
The danger with this one is it is exponential. And I think that our minds are fundamentally struggle to understand exponential math. It's just not something we're wired for. Our ancestors didn't confront exponential processes when they were growing up on the savannah. The good guys completely outnumber the bad guys when it comes to this, but the asymmetry and the fact that one catastrophic error could lead to unbelievably consequential things is what worries me here.
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