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What if they miss one and it multiplies out of sight. Now it's out, forever. Impossible to undo. Because Ricky was a little hungover and spilled a drop without noticing.

Or do it offworld at least, wired up to a dead man's switch connected to like...a nuke. Nobody infected can leave, and any localized research or pathogens are crisped and blown apart.

Like, seriously, we only have this one green planet for potentially hundreds of light-years around us, which even at the speed of light would take us centuries to reach another earth-like world. We really cannot afford to damage this lifeboat in a vast sea of barren, rocky islands devoid of life, water, or food.

Even climate change is mind boggling to think about, when you realize there's no alternatives anywhere even close. Even with incredibly optimistic technology breakthroughs, we are still centuries away from travelling outside this solar system and making it to the next closest star system (light-years away).

But is it not our curiosity that defines us? What separates us from machines, outside of needing to sleep, if we don't have our curiosity, our passion for the unknown? It's not like we can only have a little curiosity, curious enough to try a new meal but not to work towards breakthroughs that might unlock ways of bettering our lives.

How else would we have gotten all of our vaccines without people "playing god"? I think while the garbage AI is a bit scary, it's not the AI part that terrifies me, it's the coldness "the economy" has towards people's livelihoods, otherwise AI is nothing special in pushing forward or downfall as a society, it's just highlighting something that was always there, a class conflict

I think the only way to grow past our immaturity is to break out of our boundaries as human. I'd rather try than stagnate with all our flaws into extinction.

AI is one of those things that's stupidly overblown. The true downsides to AI are it's uses in spreading misinformation and it's enormous environmental impact. When companies are buying nuclear plants for enough electricity, the whole thing has gone off the rails. There are other downsides but those two are the largeat to me. In short though, we've nothing like true AI anyways so playing god is a stretch.

Edit: tbf I do understand your point and find it valid.

It's like that old saying ... Just because we can doesn't mean we should.

I can comprehend this one perfectly, actually.

I get the fear but what about those of us that want a Symbiote-suit?

Proteins and DNA and their mirrored counterparts behave like the Tetris L and ⅃ blocks, basically the same but you cannot rotate them to fit in a hole meant for the other. Fitting in holes is, somewhat literally, how most processes of life work on the sub-cellular level.

Processes like the immune system. And if an experimental microbe from mirrored DNA doesn't fit in the holes your immune system uses to identify things, because all the proteins curve the wrong way, there's no telling how it behaves, even if the unmirrored version is one of the most studied organisms. And it's not just your immune system, it's every living things' one. And 1 microbe alone is a potential pandemic.

I am no expert, but I hope the horror is comprehensible now. If not, I imagine minuteEarth's video on mirrored molecules is basically the same reasoning here, with the caveat that mirrored DNA tends to make more of itself.