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If viruses could be safely contained, there would be no issue with research like this. The reality is, no true safety can ever be maintained, see the Wuhan Ins
by jbuhbjlnjbn 4y ago
If viruses could be safely contained, there would be no issue with research like this.
The reality is, no true safety can ever be maintained, see the Wuhan Institute as most prominent example.
Smart engineers think of ways to make everything fail-safe. Then humans behave like humans. We have abstract ideas of how responsible engineers/researchers are supposed to act, and then comes reality.
The list of incidents in research facilities like the Wuhan Institute is long and almost comical, if you keep in mind what is at stake and compare the plan and then see how trivial it goes wrong.
Nuclear power, viruses, AI - humanity is playing with fire, it's just a matter of time until we get burned again.
- jaclaz 4y ago>Smart engineers think of ways to make everything fail-safe. Then humans behave like humans. We have abstract ideas of how responsible engineers/researchers are supposed to act, and then comes reality. As Douglas Adams put it: “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”