On the other (IMO bigger) hand, the fewer people talk about the thing explicitly, the less likely it is to be included in the Overton windows and less likely it is to seem like a reasonable/socialy acceptable goal to aim for directly.
I don’t think the case for safe nuclear/biotechnology would be less persuasive if paired with “let’s just get rid of nuclear weapons/bioweapons/gain of function research”.
On the one hand, yeah, it might.
On the other (IMO bigger) hand, the fewer people talk about the thing explicitly, the less likely it is to be included in the Overton windows and less likely it is to seem like a reasonable/socialy acceptable goal to aim for directly.
I don’t think the case for safe nuclear/biotechnology would be less persuasive if paired with “let’s just get rid of nuclear weapons/bioweapons/gain of function research”.