thanks for the kind words! I agree that we didn’t have much good stuff for ppl to do 4 yrs ago when i started in bio but don’t feel like my model matches yours regarding why.
But I’m also wanting to confirm I’ve understood what you are looking for before I ramble.
How much would you agree with this description of what I could imagine filling in from what you said re ‘why it took so long’:
“well I looked at this list of projects, and it didn’t seem all that non-obvious to me, and so the default explanation of ‘it just took a long time to work out these projects’ doesn’t seem to answer the question”
(TBC, I think this would be a very reasonable read of the piece, and I’m not interpreting your question to be critical tho also obviously fine if it is hahah)
That sounds like much of it. To be clear, it’s not that the list is obvious, but more that it seems fairly obvious that a similar list was possible. It seemed pretty clear to me a few years ago that there must be some reasonable lists of non-info-hazard countermeasures that we could work on, for general-purpose bio safety. I didn’t have these particular measures in mind, but figured that roughly similar ones would be viable.
Another part of my view is, ”Could we have hired a few people to work full-time coming up with a list about this good, a few years earlier?”
I know a few people who were discouraged from working in the field earlier on because their was neither the list, nor the go-ahead to try to make a list.
thanks for the kind words! I agree that we didn’t have much good stuff for ppl to do 4 yrs ago when i started in bio but don’t feel like my model matches yours regarding why.
But I’m also wanting to confirm I’ve understood what you are looking for before I ramble.
How much would you agree with this description of what I could imagine filling in from what you said re ‘why it took so long’:
“well I looked at this list of projects, and it didn’t seem all that non-obvious to me, and so the default explanation of ‘it just took a long time to work out these projects’ doesn’t seem to answer the question”
(TBC, I think this would be a very reasonable read of the piece, and I’m not interpreting your question to be critical tho also obviously fine if it is hahah)
That sounds like much of it. To be clear, it’s not that the list is obvious, but more that it seems fairly obvious that a similar list was possible. It seemed pretty clear to me a few years ago that there must be some reasonable lists of non-info-hazard countermeasures that we could work on, for general-purpose bio safety. I didn’t have these particular measures in mind, but figured that roughly similar ones would be viable.
Another part of my view is,
”Could we have hired a few people to work full-time coming up with a list about this good, a few years earlier?”
I know a few people who were discouraged from working in the field earlier on because their was neither the list, nor the go-ahead to try to make a list.