It’s time to close the gene synthesis loophole that could lead to a human-made pandemic
www.vox.com
Congress is grappling with the security concerns of the DNA synthesis revolution.

I don’t particularly disagree with the piece, but it’s striking how little effort is put in to make this resemble a news piece or a typical Vox explainer. It’s just blatant editorializing (“Please do this thing I want”) and very blatantly carrying water for the–some how non-discredited–EA movement priorities.

    • 200fifty@awful.systemsEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Kelsey Piper is a senior writer at Future Perfect, Vox’s effective altruism-inspired section on the world’s biggest challenges.

      Sounds like it. I’m kind of surprised they’re still making the association so explicit now that effective altruism is more well-known in the mainstream and has a fairly bad public image due to the FTX thing

    • lobotomy42@awful.systemsOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I mean, yes, but I feel like they at least put in some effort to give it a veneer of seriousness / normality. This struck me as being exceptional in its “we are right and you should go do this” tone with no effort whatsoever at quoting a dissenting voice.