Neil Gershenfeld
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1,202 appearances
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first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
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Yeah, with the Fab Lab, you could roughly make a bio lab, then learn biotechnology.
Now, that's terrifying because making self-reproducing gray goo that outcompetes biology, I consider doomed because biology knows everything I'm describing and is really good at what it does.
In...
how to grow almost anything, you learn skills in biotechnology that let you make serious biological threats.
Yeah, so something to be scared about is a fab lab can make a bio lab, a bio lab can make biotechnology, somebody could learn to make a virus.
That's scary.
Unlike some of the things I said I don't worry about, that's something I really worry about that is scary.
Now, how do you deal with that?
Prior threats, we dealt with command and control.
Mm-hmm.
early color copiers had unique codes and you could tell which copier made them.
Eventually you couldn't keep up with that.
There was a famous meeting at Asilomar in the early days of recombinant DNA, where that community recognized the dangers of what it was doing and put in place a regime to help manage it.
And so that led to the kind of research management
So MIT has an office that supervises research and it works with the national office.
That works if you can identify who's doing it and where.
It doesn't work in this world we're describing.
So anybody could do this anywhere.
And so what we found is you can't,
contain this, it's already out.
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