Steelmanning the fear: a fully automated virus lab would cost over $100M
DavidRBellamy · x · 2026-09-14
Steelmanning the fear as hard as possible, the author imagines a fully automated viral synthesis lab — automated freezers, automated cell culture, the works — costing well over $100M. No single lab can synthesize all conceivable viruses; even assuming one built for the most dangerous known virus families, the fear scenario still struggles.
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