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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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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Very bad Australia vibes here. "What if we introduced a new species to fix the other introduced species problem?"
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I know I KNOW but this would actually be 100% safe
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