Rephrase: Bioweapons are hard but I don’t know if I’m cool w/STS’s kind of nominalization & fetishization of tacit knowledge.pic.twitter.com/CQPQPd0bFL
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If the argument is, tacit knowledge will stop proliferation (of whatever) — very dubious. In some cases it matters a lot (but can be overcome with effort), in some cases it matters not at all (because knowledge required is "easily" acquired — e.g., in totally dual-use fields).
When I talk to nonpro people (esp. in bio), I say: be wary of new tools/innovations/approaches that radically reduce tacit knowledge in areas that could be dual-use. Because once it gets easy for "good guys" it will also be easy for "bad guys."
