I like this distinction! Trying to find examples from biotechnology:
Ordering: you’d prefer cheap benchtop DNA printers to be developed after decent screening mechanisms, à la SecureDNA or Common Mechanism
Gradualness: environmental deployment of gene drives, maybe? (mostly for the “more time with more clarity” reasons of wanting a fair bit of time to observe how these work in practice)
Distance from now: germline gene editing of humans (people like Doudna have often called for a “society-wide conversation” + more time to develop norms for this before we deploy it)
I like this distinction! Trying to find examples from biotechnology:
Ordering: you’d prefer cheap benchtop DNA printers to be developed after decent screening mechanisms, à la SecureDNA or Common Mechanism
Gradualness: environmental deployment of gene drives, maybe? (mostly for the “more time with more clarity” reasons of wanting a fair bit of time to observe how these work in practice)
Distance from now: germline gene editing of humans (people like Doudna have often called for a “society-wide conversation” + more time to develop norms for this before we deploy it)