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Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The H Five N One Research That You Discussed

Gain of function research, where biologists modify genom such that it acquires a different rate of transmissability. So we have to figure out how to modify human behavior across the board so as to reduce the likelihood of this kind of thing happening. A single mutation could make them super transmissible in ways that they're not currently and we that nature is running that experiment continuously. We already know that there are natural virusesand and other pathagans that have very high lethality.

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