this is genuinely bad news, afaict it’s yet another big bad thing there really isn’t a plan for, just one lab leak away we have all experienced, firsthand now, one way that plays out, and seen how good a “plan” there ishttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1420989331242557448 …
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dang it
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God wouldn't let any of these scenarios happen
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I am just a putty-brained shovelbum but if I’m reading this right This is a Grey Goo scenario, without the nanotechnology component ??
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Pretty much. Super-simply put, we could accidentally do the equivalent of introducing rats to the Dodo's island... where the Dodo is our food supply and the rats are seemingly-identical but inedible foodstuffs.
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So as terrifying as this stuff is I think there's probably also some questions that need answering- like why earth life is chiral all in one direction as opposed to a mix. I'm willing to bet that like with the mirrored (heh) matter/antimatter problem there's some natural check
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If the wiki (been a bit since I looked up anything about chirality) is anything to go off of, it *does* look like some simple chiral molecules can be interacted with, but their interactions change based on L/R iterations. Hopefully means mirror cyanobacteria can be predated on.
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