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2 months agoI’ve seen this show up a couple times recently and I’m hesitant to think it’s as bad as advertised. The linked video basically states mirror bacteria has no weaknesses while laser hitting all existing life’s weaknesses. Reporting extremes like that is a red flag and needs some extra scrutiny. Why would it be so one sided like that? Wouldn’t they exist in an equally hostile environment but also be seriously outnumbered?
For sure we have to be very careful about what we’re making in labs. The warnings I’ve seen about this so far seem very sensationalized though. I’m not a germologist though someone correct me if I’m way off course please
I used to work for a university trying to modernize how people got student and financial data. Over half my work was playing politics rooting out people who refused to change and going above their head. We had one guy who didn’t want to update a script on his end to include the bare minimum amount of ‘security’: a hard coded plain text password. It took me months and I had to go to his office to update his script and he complained about it the entire four minutes it took