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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1. we cant even make D-DNA artificial life yet. best we've done is sort of mess around with bacteria apparently we have made entirely synthetic viruses but that is far far simpler so this is not likely to even be possible for a while
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2. I dont have any idea what kind of ability cyanobacteria have to fix nitrogen and it seems like it would be difficult for mirror cyanobacteria to get adequate amounts of mirror amino acids from the environment if they can't synthesize it themselves
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3. even supposing they could somehow survive if they escaped it would be possible to engineer them to have a very difficult time living outside a lab environment by removing their ability to synthesize essential molecules independently
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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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Replying to @eigenrobot
Very bad Australia vibes here. "What if we introduced a new species to fix the other introduced species problem?"
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Replying to @LudditeHacker
I know I KNOW but this would actually be 100% safe
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I suppose I have to trust you on that right.pic.twitter.com/mcQd5xWaNL
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I wish I could make the judgment myself. I spent so a crazy amount of time reading shit about covid in the pas 1,5 years I could have just been undergrad level competent in biology if I had used that time to just read textbooks and stuff. What a waste
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