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Special Episode: Recipes for Future Plagues
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Understanding Virus Is Better Than Understanding Nature
If we have sequencing based monitoring systems in place everywhere, we'll pick them up nearly immediately. And if we act tried, we could probably build comfortable, even stylish equipment that keeps you from getting infected with viruses. But it's really hard to make the argument that the threat of natural pandemics could ever be enough to justify creating that risk of deliberate misuse which could be so much worse. Because humans make better terrorists than nature. Even if we can't make viruss worse than nature, we make better terrorists.
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