[jph00]

Thank you Michael. I'm not even sure I disagree with you on many things -- I think things are very complicated and nuanced and am skeptical of people that hold overly strong opinions about such things, so I try not to be such a person myself!

When I see one side of an AI safety argument being (IMO) straw-manned, I tend to push back against it. That doesn't mean however that I disagree.

FWIW, on AI/bio, my current view is that it's probably easier to harden the facilities and resources required for bio-weapon development, compared to hardening the compute capability and information availability. (My wife is studying virology at the moment so I'm very aware of how accessible this information is.)