Comment by gcm on Biological risk from the mirror world · 2024-12-25T22:07:59.787Z · LW · GW

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.

 

1. ^{^}

   It's an archived link because the author has since deleted the post upon request of a biosecurity expert at OpenPhilanthropy