I mostly just want people to pay attention to this problem.
Ok. To be clear, I strongly agree with this. I think I’ve been responding to a claim (maybe explicit, or maybe implicit / imagined by me) from you like: “There’s this risk, and therefore we should not do this.”. Where I want to disagree with the implication, not the antecedent. (I hope to more gracefully agree with things like this. Also someone should make a LW post with a really catchy term for this implication / antecedent discourse thing, or link me the one that’s already been written.)
But I do strongly disagree with the conclusion ”...we should not do this”, to the point where I say “We should basically do this as fast as possible, within the bounds of safety and sanity.”. The benefits are large, the risks look not that bad and largely ameliorable, and in particular the need regarding existential risk is great and urgent.
That said, more analysis is definitely needed. Though in defense of the pro-germline engineering position, there’s few resources, and everyone has a different objection.
Ok. To be clear, I strongly agree with this. I think I’ve been responding to a claim (maybe explicit, or maybe implicit / imagined by me) from you like: “There’s this risk, and therefore we should not do this.”. Where I want to disagree with the implication, not the antecedent. (I hope to more gracefully agree with things like this. Also someone should make a LW post with a really catchy term for this implication / antecedent discourse thing, or link me the one that’s already been written.)
But I do strongly disagree with the conclusion ”...we should not do this”, to the point where I say “We should basically do this as fast as possible, within the bounds of safety and sanity.”. The benefits are large, the risks look not that bad and largely ameliorable, and in particular the need regarding existential risk is great and urgent.
That said, more analysis is definitely needed. Though in defense of the pro-germline engineering position, there’s few resources, and everyone has a different objection.