[ExI] My comments on Dario Amodei's essay

[Ben Zaiboc]

On Tuesday, 15 September 2026 at 11:28, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 5:26 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>> Almost anything dangerous can be broken down into component steps that are each not dangerous
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> And almost anything that could potentially produce something dangerous that might kill people, could also potentially produce something that is good that could save lives.

Very true.

I suppose the phrase 'weapons research' is a bit misleading. It implies that the research can only be used for creating weapons. We can probably change 'biological weapons research' to 'biological research'. Or even 'biological defence research'.

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Ben

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