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intrasight • today at 1:08 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

You don't need a mirror image organism to cause great harm. An engineered prion could also be devastating.

I don't think preons are technically mirror molecules, but it's close enough from a risk perspective. If rogue AI were to do us in through bioengineering, it might be by creating a novel prion.


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rwmj • today at 1:15 PM

So that's two things we shouldn't be releasing into the world.

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