Nice, thanks for those links, great to have those linked here since we didn’t point to them in the report. I’ve seen the Open Phil one but I don’t think I’d seen the Animal Ethics study, it looks very interesting.
Thanks for raising the point about speed of establishment for Clean Meat and Genetic Circuits! Our definition for the “origin year” (from here) is “The year that the technology or area is purposefully explored for the first time.” So it’s supposed to be when someone starts working on it, not when someone first has the idea. We think that Willem van Eelen started working on developing clean meat in the 1950′s, so we set the origin year to be around then. Whereas as far as we’re aware no-one was working on genetic circuits until much later.
At the moment I’m not sure whether the supplementary notes say anywhere that we think van Eelen was working on developing clean meat in the 50′s, I think Megan is going to update the notes to make this clearer.
Nice, thanks for those links, great to have those linked here since we didn’t point to them in the report. I’ve seen the Open Phil one but I don’t think I’d seen the Animal Ethics study, it looks very interesting.
Thanks for raising the point about speed of establishment for Clean Meat and Genetic Circuits! Our definition for the “origin year” (from here) is “The year that the technology or area is purposefully explored for the first time.” So it’s supposed to be when someone starts working on it, not when someone first has the idea. We think that Willem van Eelen started working on developing clean meat in the 1950′s, so we set the origin year to be around then. Whereas as far as we’re aware no-one was working on genetic circuits until much later.
At the moment I’m not sure whether the supplementary notes say anywhere that we think van Eelen was working on developing clean meat in the 50′s, I think Megan is going to update the notes to make this clearer.
Thanks, Ben! :)