An excellent example of how expertise and reasoning ability in one domain does not necessarily transfer to another.

That humility is hard for engineers is something I try to remind myself daily.

He seems nice.

(wow, what a huge amount of fear mongering and conspiracy theories there)

ESR should stick to writing jargon files.

Meanwhile ... the news on the Lieber story[0], which first appeared 5 weeks ago, has gone silent. Interesting coincidence. Of course, on Reddit it's been combined with Epstein. BTW, in case you run across it, here's what 'BSL-4' means.[1]

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/01/28/800442646/acclaimed-harvard-s...

[1] https://consteril.com/biosafety-levels-difference/