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.
(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