A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life

This is the first time I've seen one of these proposals which highlights a future potential harm and then makes the healthy proposal for radical open COOPERATION and mutual self-restraint instead of a surveillance panopticon and tyrannical oppression as the solution. Bravo!

Recommendations:

* In a first line of effort, the United States should engage scientific superpowers, especially China, to build the foundation for collective restraint. Policymakers and the scientific community should prioritize transparent scientific collaboration, shared risk assessments, and early norm-setting.

* For the second line of effort, the United States should promote collective restraint across domestic, allied, and global scientific communities. This involves combining incentive-reducing measures with monitoring, verification, and other early-stage deterrence tools.

* The United States should take great caution with actions or statements that could foster mistrust or spur strategic competition in the field of mirror life or its enabling technologies.

* The United States must commit clearly to not developing mirror life, even if other actors are suspected of pursuing it.

* U.S. policymakers should advance actions that require long lead times, such as legislation, treaties, and international engagement, in parallel.

* U.S. policymakers should also treat countermeasures and resilience as constrained contingencies.

Extremely relevant: https://www.hoover.org/research/biosecurity-really-strategy-...

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Except in the world of "anything is possible," mirror life would have no food. All biomolecules are chiral.

On the other hand, the recommendations are all commonsense, and don't only apply to mirror life. For instance...

>>> In a first line of effort, the United States should engage scientific superpowers, especially China, to build the foundation for collective restraint. Policymakers and the scientific community should prioritize transparent scientific collaboration, shared risk assessments, and early norm-setting.

Leaving this here for no particular reason: https://www.rifters.com/real/STARFISH.htm#prelude

I thought they were concerned with people living on their devices. Like a mirror digital world. Too bad.

Ah, another edition of "Don't Create the Torment Nexus". Expect startups to race for a demo of mirror life soon!

Would dextro bacteria even be able to infect levo based life? Or is this just some fearmongering about bio to give more power to the government?