Thanks for sharing.
Agreed, the risk of mirror-life should be taken seriously even if its viability is far off into the future.
Here’s a fun thought experiment: https://archive.ph/t1Ulh#30%[1]
It’s a hypothetical scenario where we engineer a mirrored organism (e.g. maybe cyanobacteria?) to produce L-glucose to sell as artificial sweetener. It ends with the Earth becoming an ice-rock.
It’s an archived link because the author has since deleted the post upon request of a biosecurity expert at OpenPhilanthropy
Thanks for sharing.
Agreed, the risk of mirror-life should be taken seriously even if its viability is far off into the future.
Here’s a fun thought experiment: https://archive.ph/t1Ulh#30%[1]
It’s a hypothetical scenario where we engineer a mirrored organism (e.g. maybe cyanobacteria?) to produce L-glucose to sell as artificial sweetener. It ends with the Earth becoming an ice-rock.
It’s an archived link because the author has since deleted the post upon request of a biosecurity expert at OpenPhilanthropy