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This fits with my personal explanation of why we haven’t found intelligent life out in the universe - eventually they get so clever that they extinct themselves!

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Meh. So, somebody transposed the old "grey goo" trope into speculative biology? I guess self-replicating nanobots just can't cut the suspension-of-disbelief mustard anymore.

Let me know when we can synthesize a self-replicating pseudo-bacterium from plain old homochiral amino acids or whatever, then I might be able to get worried. I don't think we're even close to that.

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So much time, energy and money wasted chasing dark powers and so little invested in health and fitness with humility and reverence for complexities beyond our understanding.

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