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Dangerous biological research - is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt)

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Pandemic Enhancement Research

The odds of potential pandemic enhancement succeeding to turn something that wouldn't actually take off inhumans into something that would, i see, it is not all that high. The thing i find so frustrating about reading the discourse on this potential pendemic enhancement research is that seems like most defenders of the research aren't really engaging with the details of the concern that people have with it. I'm actually more concerned by the many, many, many folks who are interested in finding every mammalian and bird virus in nature.

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