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>Very, very useful.

Just to frame it a particular way, biological systems are basically solved nanotechnology, extremely good, self-sustaining, resilient little machines that have spent a long time optimizing to be better and better. But all the designs are preset, if we can crack the code and design our own little machines, then amazing things like more plastic-like cellulose could be made, all sorts of problems are suddenly far easier to solve. But also a lot of new problems emerge that weren't even imaginable before, since the code being cracked is a big chunk of the code of life itself. So, yknow, playing God and all, so there probably will be some negative consequences of this too.

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Yes, I agree with all this.

Generally speaking molecular nanotechnology will solve all the "intractable" problems we as a society face today: climate change, poverty, biological death from old age / disease / cancer, and more.

We could also create tools of destruction so vast, it can be hard to contemplate.