Mirror Life as a threat

[spudb...@aol.com]

Of the 2 existential threats there is disagreement which would be more lethal, mirror life or nukes? One might take care of the other. Because the radiation and climate change, blocked sunlight, would likely do away with the counter spiral based life, that, history repeating, would escape from a Chinese laboratory. Name your poison, literally. 

I'd still go with nukes, being an oldie, and considered the decades of experience we've invested in nuclear weapons. I'll give it hands over any bio threat, including an anti-chiral microbe. Would anti-life even survive in the open against the random actions of nature? 

[John Clark]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM 'spudb...@aol.com' via Everything List <everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> Of the 2 existential threats there is disagreement which would be more lethal, mirror life or nukes?

Nukes couldn't destroy the biosphere, some bacteria can live and reproduce inside a nuclear reactor, but a properly designed form of mirror life could. 

> Would anti-life even survive in the open against the random actions of nature? 

Yes. The immune system of animals wouldn't even be able to see mirror life, much less attack it. And not just animals, the same would be true of plants. Nothing would be safe from it, not even viruses. But an AI probably won't have the ability to make mirror life for a long time, about 10 years.  

John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  Extropolis

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[spudb...@aol.com]

I am open to ai-design mirror life being the most dangerous kid on the block. 10 years of AI progress might be enough to design conter-measures to Mirror life. Such as Medical nanobots to the rescue. Remediation of nuclear wars might be trickier as this would indicate a neutralizing tehnology, like combined laser & particle beam weapons like Reagan tried 40 years ago. Star Wars. 

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