Stop right there at “Either abiogenesis is extremely rare...” I think we have considerable evidence that biogenesis is rare—our failure to detect any other life in the universe so far. I think we have no evidence at all that biogenesis is not rare. (Anthropic argument.)
Stop again at “I don’t think we need to take any steps to stop it from doing so in the future”. That’s not what this post is about. It’s about taking steps to prevent people from deliberately constructing it.
Failure to detect other life in the universe is only really evidence against advanced intelligent civilizations, I think. The universe could easily be absolutely teeming with bacterial life.
Re “take steps to stop it”, I was replying to @Purplehermann
Stop right there at “Either abiogenesis is extremely rare...” I think we have considerable evidence that biogenesis is rare—our failure to detect any other life in the universe so far. I think we have no evidence at all that biogenesis is not rare. (Anthropic argument.)
Stop again at “I don’t think we need to take any steps to stop it from doing so in the future”. That’s not what this post is about. It’s about taking steps to prevent people from deliberately constructing it.
Failure to detect other life in the universe is only really evidence against advanced intelligent civilizations, I think. The universe could easily be absolutely teeming with bacterial life.
Re “take steps to stop it”, I was replying to @Purplehermann