some reasons to not freak out about this entirely speculative please do not trust anything I say in any directionhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1420989331242557448 …
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suppose life uh. finds a way our oceans are now choked with mirror cyanobacteria this isnt good but it can probably be mitigated at least
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4. if we can synthesize mirror cyanobacteria we can certainly synthesize mirror cyanophages. cyanophages are viruses that specialize in killing cyanobacteria. mirror cyanophages would only be able to infect mirror cyanobacteria this might effectively check their growth
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5. there exist non-mirror enzymes that break that break down mirror glucose and there's a well-understood way to transfer enzymes to bacteria so we just seed the ocean with anti-mirror glucose enzyme and that lets bacteria consume it after all
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6. I have no idea what de novo enzyme design is like right now but by the time we figure out fully synthetic life--ehhhhh maybe we have protein design figured out too. so we might not be limited to known natural enzymes for breaking down mirror molecules as in (5)
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this is the crucial point!
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im worried people would get really lazy
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oh its okay its just like jurassic park would do it
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this would still be a major problem just like not as bad
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