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Special Episode: Recipes for Future Plagues

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Gene Gene Synthesis

After publication of the geno sequence, what they may not have anticipated was just how cheap synthetic diana would become. We've gone from a hundred labs that could create this, more or less immediately after it was published to somewhere between 20 and 50 thousand people right now. Even if you assign a very small chance that someone would and a small chance that it would actually cause a pendemic, the numbers don't look good when you calculate it from that perspective.

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