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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: Natural recycling at the origin of life
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:49:07 +1100
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On 27/03/2024 2:50 am, John Larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 04:13:35 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> Natural recycling at the origin of life
>> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240322145524.htm
>> Source:
>> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
>> Summary:
>> How was complex life able to develop on the inhospitable early Earth?
>> At the beginning there must have been ribonucleic acid (RNA) to carry the first genetic information.
> 
> That's the hand-waving theory. Nobody has figured how that could have
> happened, even in a hospitable environment.
> 
>> To build up complexity in their sequences, these biomolecules need to release water.
>> On the early Earth, which was largely covered in seawater, that was not so easy to do.
>>
>> So, simple :-)
>>
>> Then us, then chips, AI, what's next?
> 
> What we need is a test to find the most dangerous people, thieves and
> jihadists and Putins, and a genetic modification therapy to make them
> safe.

Since we don't yet know what makes them dangerous, we don't know if a 
genetic modification could make them safe.

Robert Plombin's "Blueprint"

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262039161/blueprint/

suggests that most complex human behavior is influenced by thousands of 
single nuclear polymorphisms, and each dangerous individual would 
require a whole raft of individually tailored genetic modifications.

> It could even be a pandemic virus.

Only in John Larkin's over-simplified universe.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney