, I find myself baffled by this point because, if the concern is that there may be all manner of undetectable effects, then why aren't you attributing the same potential harms to the virus itself?
I do. I wonder if their could be undetectable like radiations that semi randomly rotate around space undetected that could have undetectable impacts on populations. Such as a type of wave that would impact our ability to feel empathy by just 3% wouldn't be detectable, but would have pretty harmful impacts.
I guess I just favor the undetectable impacts of nature, because it has likely evolved over billions of years to also have undetectable type responses to mitigate those damaged, when human tinkering doesn't have such natural opposite forces to balance it like nature.
You know the circle of life and all. I heard of stories where cats are introduced in areas that have never seen them to deal with rat problems and then the cat problem ends up causing more environmental damage. Things like that, which nature wouldn't have allowed, but man fucked up.
It's the old story of Frankenstein's monster. You just have no ideal the forces you are messing with.
This is why I believe we should go full scale ahead and do whatever it takes to create a super AI who can measure impacts better than humans, and allow them to make all the decisions for us.