[ExI] thinking about the unthinkable

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 8:56 AM John Clark via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 8:33 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> > If we imagine a virus-engineering AI for instance, there are isolated groups of people who
>> will not catch it.
>
> Not if it was a Mirror Life virus, all forms of life would catch it, even bacteria. It would be like the movie Andromeda Strain only worse.

Yes, even if it was a mirror life virus.  All forms of life could
catch it, but the geographical isolation and other factors that
explain why some isolated groups wouldn't catch a normal virus would
apply at roughly the same strength to a mirror life virus.