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Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. In this post, Kyle Fish presents five key goals for biosecurity technologies: to be fast, general, cheap, robust, and scalable. These will be useful heuristics for us to apply as we consider a range of interventions over the next three weeks. Kyle was previously the CTO at Alvea, a vaccine start-up which became the fastest startup to take a new drug from founding to a Phase 1 clinical trial. Original text: https://forum.effectivealtrui...
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