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Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse
Making Sense with Sam Harris
The Second Component, Early Detection, Is Everything in Epidemics
A lone labtek can now sequence a human genom in a few hours, something that recently took the entire field of bi logy 13 years. By then, hundreds of thousands of people could have access to gear that could cause a terrifying outbreak. So there needs to be an iron set of rules and an iron culture about keeping dangerous d and a out of the wrong hands. And the time to create these universal rules is now, not months before distributed printers attain apocalyptic powers. Covid illustrates the cost of ignoring a novel disease's outbreak. It shows how profound expedential growth is when we discussed sinbio's speed of improvement.
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