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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Assuming no uh, L-evolution (is that even possible)
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im thinking it would be difficult. youd probably need the evolution to happen in the lab in advance of the leak and there would be no selective pressure for it
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