Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great experience,’ he replied. ‘Wasn’t that bad compared to what it could have been, but I’m surprised there has not been more global coordination and I think we should have more of that.’

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The racist connotations about the lab I knew about, but I didn’t think it made it less true.

    this is an absolute fuck of a sentence and seeing as how you keep JAQing off in a way that platforms conspiracy bullshit, you can just fuck off too

    • tetris11English
      1·
      1 year ago

      An absolutionist, and an eloquent one at that. Pray you never fall doubt to your own mind, and exist in a ceasingly eternal state of no regrets. Champion of your own destiny, you are. A good reader too.