my guess is none although it would be weird if idk some invert engineered autotroph escaped and somehow started competing with R-DNA autotrophs and outcompeted them because nothing would eat them and oh shit now we die I guess?https://twitter.com/__frye/status/1420968621732339715?s=19 …
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I dont have the slightest clue maybe? I guess inverted prions would probably be saferhttps://twitter.com/LoneVoltsAhead/status/1420968529843658758?s=19 …
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im inclined to extend benefit of the doubt here because theyre claiming (i) to have actually built something that (ii) doesnt contravene laws of physics as they currently exist and (iii) has no obvious political valence but yes who knows it may be trash https://twitter.com/edibleflowerga1/status/1420964967981928448?s=19 …
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update probably real https://twitter.com/halvorz/status/1420976494235602947?s=19 …
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as far as applications we're like a hop skip and a jump from solving climate change and peak oil in a fell swoop [joke tweet]https://twitter.com/asingleoat/status/1420954835805884416?s=19 …
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gonna pat myself on the back for apparently independently deriving a standard view of the ecological dangers of mirror life so yes if mirror cyanobacteria escaped from a lab we would probably all die fortunately biology labs are proven extremely securehttps://twitter.com/prawncis/status/1420982623048925187?s=19 …
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For the risks they pose, “extremely secure” means nothing when we’re talking about situations that only need to happen once.
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(Eigen is being sarcastic. He thinks this is alarming!)
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oh yes thank you the last bit was intended to convey the opposite of the literal meaning of the words
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none of this makes any sense I think I’m being trolled
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Sarcasm off: lab leaks fairly often, and as Thibs points out, even one leak of something sufficiently deadly can be catastrophic. Eigen, Thibs, and I are all deeply troubled by this Some ideas for improving biosecurity are listed in this podcast ep:https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/cassidy-nelson-12-ways-to-stop-pandemics/ …
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