Also, at this point I have zero faith that if we decided on reasonable precautions that were actually reasonable if followed, that those procedures would get followed, even by those who said they were following them. There would also be those who saw this as permission to do the research without even saying they would use the precautions. Either you ban this, or you don’t.
1984 style solution: the research is carried out and live-streamed, thus making ‘are procedures being followed’ a question answerable by examining the footage.
Arguably public research should be public info anyway.
To be clear, ‘some sufficiently strong level of precautions’ is something like ‘do it in Antarctica and the quarantine for leaving a 100-mile radius around the lab is a year or more,’ not ‘do it in China next to a city but have additional protective equipment and a second observer present.’
I was thinking the moon/mars/or something, and have it be a one way trip, but I figured the cost would be too high for anyone to pay it.
An alternative to the quarantine approach: have a series of areas through which there are specified movement patterns (i.e. a DAG). Basically, a larger quarantined area, with supplies dropped off via drone, or funneling through the start of the chain.
One of your links is broken:
https://twitter.com/walidgellad/status/1402251903598305284
Probably broken by twitter though, so...
1984 style solution: the research is carried out and live-streamed, thus making ‘are procedures being followed’ a question answerable by examining the footage.
Arguably public research should be public info anyway.
I was thinking the moon/mars/or something, and have it be a one way trip, but I figured the cost would be too high for anyone to pay it.
An alternative to the quarantine approach: have a series of areas through which there are specified movement patterns (i.e. a DAG). Basically, a larger quarantined area, with supplies dropped off via drone, or funneling through the start of the chain.
Yep, that message means it’s not broken, it got deleted.