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> no killer moths have been spotted, despite getting in 190 million years of moth gene dice rolls Nature works much slower than humans and with different "targ
by close04 7y ago
> no killer moths have been spotted, despite getting in 190 million years of moth gene dice rolls
Nature works much slower than humans and with different "targets". There's a reason we shun engineering of deadly pathogens that could wipe out the entire population, and the assumption that "it can't be done otherwise nature would have done it already" doesn't hold.
- red75prime 7y agoUnintended consequences are unintended because they weren't actively searched for. Why do you think that they will be more dangerous than random search performed in nature?
- ngcc_hk 7y agoIt is the unknown unknown you worry about when change like this. I wonder the China part as well. Not sure still about the military lab on virus in wuhan. What is the governance and ethic model here?