<story><title>H5N1 (2013)</title><url>https://blog.samaltman.com/h5n1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_acco</author><text>The deadlier a virus is, the earlier it will trip alarm systems&amp;#x2F;panic. And as we&amp;#x27;ve all learned in the past few weeks, in outbreaks days matter.&lt;p&gt;The perfect virus is balanced: just deadly &lt;i&gt;enough&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s possible SARS-CoV-2 hits the sweet spot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhiteSage</author><text>What about HIV? 10 years &amp;quot;incubation&amp;quot; period and 100% mortality. If it was as contagious as the flu it would have killed almost 100% of the human population. Isn&amp;#x27;t it a scary thought?.&lt;p&gt;It is not the only virus. Rabies, also has 100% mortality.</text></comment>
<story><title>H5N1 (2013)</title><url>https://blog.samaltman.com/h5n1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_acco</author><text>The deadlier a virus is, the earlier it will trip alarm systems&amp;#x2F;panic. And as we&amp;#x27;ve all learned in the past few weeks, in outbreaks days matter.&lt;p&gt;The perfect virus is balanced: just deadly &lt;i&gt;enough&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s possible SARS-CoV-2 hits the sweet spot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dandelany</author><text>I suspect the “perfect virus” adaptively speaking isn’t deadly at all - burning down a home your future ancestors could live in doesn’t seem like a good strategy.</text></comment>