George Church

And so far, there aren't too many examples of that, or any examples of that.

But mirror life, if it can be weaponized, then we took it to a whole nother level of concern.

And the concern was that if we got it to a certain point, it would be easy to weaponize it.

And again, there's practical considerations.

It may be that most people who would consider weaponizing mirror life would probably be satisfied with weaponizing viruses that already exist, that are already pathogens.

And they wouldn't want to destroy themselves and their family and their legacy and everything like that.

But all it takes is one, you know, one group probably or one person.

But your question is, is it inevitable?

I don't know.

It might be.

It's quite possible it's already here.

In other words, we already have mirror life in our

in our solar system or maybe even on our planet, it just hasn't been weaponized, right?

And so it's just like what we were saying in the science paper is this seems like the sort of thing that could wipe out all competing life if we're properly weaponized, but there are probably a few things like that.

And what we really need to do is reduce the motivation to do that, maybe increase our

preparedness for a variety of existential threats, some of which will be natural, some of which will be, you know, one disgruntled person who has essentially too much power because, you know, over history of

humanity, the amount of things that a single person can do has grown very significantly.

I mean, it used to be when you had your bare hands, there was kind of a limit to what one person could do.

A large number of people could team up and get, let's say, a mammoth or something like that.

But today, one person with the right connections or right access to technology