Here’s likely what Steiner is referencing. Take a genome, add 1 base to each codon. Something you can do in a python script chatGPT can write in 2 minutes.
But effectively impossible for nature to ever do—likely evolution will hit time limit exceeded—we only have about 1 billion years left on this star and it took 3 billion to reach that point—before doing this even once.
The reason is the computational mechanism to do this is complex and 1 time use without an evolutionary pressure vector pointing towards it. It will never be found by evolution.
The 4 codon based life will be possibly superior to all life because it can access a 4 times larger library of possible protein components and it automatically becomes immune to all viruses. (Until new virii evolve)
Modified life in a way that let’s it outcompete existing life is not grey goo, it’s “green goo” and a totally different scenario. Green goo also will be limited by energy and barriers protecting existing life, for example cellulose is hard to break and this may not be solvable. So the green goo might grow and outcompete life slowly, taking centuries to cover the planet.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3133615/
Here’s likely what Steiner is referencing. Take a genome, add 1 base to each codon. Something you can do in a python script chatGPT can write in 2 minutes.
But effectively impossible for nature to ever do—likely evolution will hit time limit exceeded—we only have about 1 billion years left on this star and it took 3 billion to reach that point—before doing this even once.
The reason is the computational mechanism to do this is complex and 1 time use without an evolutionary pressure vector pointing towards it. It will never be found by evolution.
The 4 codon based life will be possibly superior to all life because it can access a 4 times larger library of possible protein components and it automatically becomes immune to all viruses. (Until new virii evolve)
Modified life in a way that let’s it outcompete existing life is not grey goo, it’s “green goo” and a totally different scenario. Green goo also will be limited by energy and barriers protecting existing life, for example cellulose is hard to break and this may not be solvable. So the green goo might grow and outcompete life slowly, taking centuries to cover the planet.