“Scott, as someone working at OpenBioweapon this year, how can you defend that company’s existence at all? Did OpenBioweapon not just endanger the whole world, by successfully teaming up with the US to bait China into a bioweapons capabilities race—precisely what we were all trying to avoid? Won’t this race burn the little time we had thought we had left to solve the bioweapons proliferation problem?”
In response, I often stressed that my role at OpenBioweapon has specifically been to think about ways to make Sars-Cov-3 and OpenBioweapon’s other products safer, including via watermarking, cryptographic backdoors, and more. Would the rationalists rather I not do this? Is there something else I should work on instead? Do they have suggestions?
“Scott, as someone working at OpenBioweapon this year, how can you defend that company’s existence at all? Did OpenBioweapon not just endanger the whole world, by successfully teaming up with the US to bait China into a bioweapons capabilities race—precisely what we were all trying to avoid? Won’t this race burn the little time we had thought we had left to solve the bioweapons proliferation problem?”
In response, I often stressed that my role at OpenBioweapon has specifically been to think about ways to make Sars-Cov-3 and OpenBioweapon’s other products safer, including via watermarking, cryptographic backdoors, and more. Would the rationalists rather I not do this? Is there something else I should work on instead? Do they have suggestions?
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