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Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not? (lesswrong.com)
26 points by sieste on June 27, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



The title makes it sounds like the assumption is deer prions will spread to humans. I encourage everyone here to actually read the article. It makes an argument about why this is not something to worry much about.


There was a scare that BSE time bomb would explode in the UK in the 2010s

As prions in children of 1990s brains would develop as they matured into adults.

Never happened...


That sure would be a shitty way for humanity to end.


Yep, we're not owed a just ending. If anything, a bias toward just endings makes us more succeptible to unjust endings by vacuuming up attention that they would otherwise un-biasedly deserve.




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