[extropy-chat] Re: Recipe for Destruction - Joy/Kurzweil NYTimes Op-Ed

[Joel Peter William Pitt]

On 10/19/05, Russell Wallace <russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/18/05, The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Do you think putting MORE restrictions on scientists
> > will make them LESS likely to use their knowledge to
> > attempt to overthrow a system whose corruption is more
> > obvious to them than to the average citizen?
>
>
> Did you read the 80% of my post where I explained at length that one of
> the reasons I'm troubling to say all this is precisely that I think the
> world would be safer if we could _avoid_ a situation where the public
> decides it needs yet more government regulation to forcibly prevent
> scientists doing dangerous things?
>

The majority of the public is controlled by the media. What we need is for
the media to be more responsible instead of scaremongering the public by
making such a big deal about the public release of a viral genome.

Of course, scaremongering gets viewers/readers, so media responsibility
isn't gonna happen.

Joel
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