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X (Twitter), @chr1... (Chris Anderson (in Bay A...), reposted by rohit)

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Chris Anderson (in Bay A...  [verified]  @chr1... · 6h
The bioethics circle jerks during the Human Genome
Project, which were allocated 5% of the project's
funding, were a total waste of time.

They had countless conferences and workshops
imagining bad things that could happen like punitive
health insurance rates based on genetic risk, none
of which actually came to pass. Meanwhile all the
real issues that arose from ubiquitous DNA data, like
accidentally doxing your criminal relatives with your
own 23andMe data, were never imagined.

It's a condemnation of the precautionary principle.
Philosophers can make up all sorts of hypothetical
scenarios in a vacuum but it's nothing like actually
trying things and seeing all the weird second and
third-order consequences that emerge and *then*
dealing with the unwelcome ones.
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Tweet by Chris Anderson (handle truncated), reposted by rohit, arguing that Human Genome Project bioethics spending was wasted and that the precautionary principle is condemned by the unforeseen real-world consequences of DNA data.

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Jared Duker Lichtman @jdlichtman · 17h
We are now poised to:
Formalize all known Human Mathematics.

This is the modern equivalent of the Human Genome Project. or AlphaFold more recently, whereby all data of its kind is fully classified.

With sufficient funding and compute/tokens, a coordinated effort among academia, frontier labs, philanthropic organizations, and the federal government can formalize all Human Mathematics in the next year.
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Dark-mode X post by Jared Duker Lichtman proposing a coordinated effort to formalize all known human mathematics within a year, likened to the Human Genome Project and AlphaFold.

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