People discuss this in private a bunch, doesn’t seem valuable to discuss it in public unless someone has additional important-but-nonsensitive information.
Also in general there’s various reasons (some very good, some meh) that biorisk people mostly eschew the EA Forum for serious object-level discussions, and prefer private online and offline spaces.
Absolutely, especially for Europeans in general, not just new people. But there’s tradeoffs, the risks involve some topics that definitely shouldn’t be discussed openly, and lots of Very Serious People seem to have decided that lab leak discussion should be mostly in-person.
I recommend cold calling. I PM’d ChristianKI on Lesswrong a few months ago and got some good info on this topic.
(thoughts my own)
People discuss this in private a bunch, doesn’t seem valuable to discuss it in public unless someone has additional important-but-nonsensitive information.
Also in general there’s various reasons (some very good, some meh) that biorisk people mostly eschew the EA Forum for serious object-level discussions, and prefer private online and offline spaces.
I think this is problematic, because it makes it very hard for new people to engage and learn
Absolutely, especially for Europeans in general, not just new people. But there’s tradeoffs, the risks involve some topics that definitely shouldn’t be discussed openly, and lots of Very Serious People seem to have decided that lab leak discussion should be mostly in-person.
I recommend cold calling. I PM’d ChristianKI on Lesswrong a few months ago and got some good info on this topic.