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#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is COVID a Lab Leak?

The idea is to go out into the wilds. and scour the earth for whatever the most dangerous possible pathogens could be that they can find. And then not only do you know, try and find these, bring samples of them back to laboratories. That's step one of the badness. The next plan would be to then categorize them, do experiments on them and categorize them by their level of potential pandemic lethality. Then publish that information freely on the internet about all these pathogens,. which is literally like the building instructions of how to do them on the internet. This is something that genuinely a pocket of the like bio of the scientific community thinks is a good idea.

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