Biorisk skepticism

TagLast edit: Feb 28, 2024, 1:43 PM by Vasco Grilo🔸

Biorisk skepticism is skepticism about arguments that biological agents pose a catastrophic or existential risk.

Further reading

David Thorstad’s series on exaggerating biorisk.

Related entries

AI risk skepticism | biorisk skepticism | climate risk skepticism | nuclear risk skepticism

What are the biggest misconceptions about biosecurity and pandemic risk?

80000_HoursFeb 29, 2024, 2:52 PM

100 points

3 comments14 min readEA link

(80000hours.org)

Can a terrorist attack cause human extinction? Not on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 2, 2023, 8:20 AM

43 points

9 comments15 min readEA link

Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley on Barriers to Bioweapons

Vasco Grilo🔸Feb 15, 2024, 5:58 PM

21 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(hearthisidea.com)

Exaggerating the risks (Part 13: Ord on Biorisk)

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 31, 2023, 8:45 AM

57 points

18 comments13 min readEA link

(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

In favour of exploring nagging doubts about x-risk

Owen Cotton-BarrattJun 25, 2024, 11:52 PM

89 points

15 comments2 min readEA link

Forecasting accidentally-caused pandemics

JoshuaBlakeJan 17, 2024, 7:36 PM

48 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

(blog.joshuablake.co.uk)

RAND report finds no effect of current LLMs on viability of bioterrorism attacks

LizkaJan 26, 2024, 8:10 PM

108 points

17 comments3 min readEA link

(www.rand.org)

Variance of the annual conflict and epidemic/pandemic deaths as a fraction of the global population

Vasco Grilo🔸Sep 10, 2024, 5:02 PM

16 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

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