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David_Gerard comments on Video Q&A with Singularity Institute Executive Director - Less Wrong Discussion

42 Post author: lukeprog 10 December 2011 11:27AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 11 December 2011 12:14:58PM 7 points [-]

I think most people would agree that if a scientist happened to create a synthetic virus that was airborne and could kill hundreds of millions of people if released into the wild, we wouldn't want the instructions for creating that synthetic virus to be published in the open for terrorist groups or hawkish governments to use.

Some say this has already happened. (I am somewhat cheered that the general reaction was "WHAT THE HELL, HERO?")