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.
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.