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• coldtea 2y ago
  This post reads like a parody... A lightweight "conflict of interest notice" brushing off the concerns and providing plausible deniability ("Well, I did tell you"), the company unironically described as "mostly rationalists", gems like "if you eat a normal Western diet, your mouth microbiome is already pretty far from the design specs, and it’s unclear if using Lumina makes things worse." "So probably this isn’t a risk for some kind of weird pandemic" Q: "If you wanted to get rid of it, could you? A: Some kind of extreme course of oral antibiotics that nukes everything growing in your mouth would probably eradicate BCS3-L1, but this hasn’t been tested and would have side effects".