jacobjacob comments on Bioinfohazards

[jacobjacob]

Elicit Prediction (Overall, in 2019, biosecurity in the context of catastrophic risks had been underfunded and underdiscussed.)

Elicit Prediction (The EA community has sometimes erred too much on the side of shutting down discussions of biology by turning them into discussions about info-hazards.)

(You can find a list of all 2019 Review poll questions here.)

[Spiracular]

Heh. Damn, did this post end up in the right Everett branch.

[niplav]

Surprised about the answers to the second question. In conversations in EA circles I’ve had about biorisk, infohazards have never been brought up.

Perhaps there is some anchoring going on here?