Wandering in the Woods

A few years ago, Freeman Dyson had an article in the New York Review of Books extolling the virtues of a kind of "open source" approach to gene splicing. He seemed completely oblivious to the potential dangers of homebrew pandemics, and seemed to have been completely unaware of the dangers posed just by software malware, let alone things like bubonic rootkits. I had intended to write a sharp response, but never got a round to it.

The survival value of human intelligence has yet to be demonstrated ...