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Why Yudkowsky is wrong about "covalently bonded equivalents of biology" (titotal.substack.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is my article on one of the dumbest and most obviously false claims Yudkowsky has ever made, about biology not using covalent bonds.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

my DMs are open, but lemmy's DMs seem to be janky, matrix should be more reliable

I’m tempted to edit this response into the original post

no issues with that

Yudkowsky’s word salad

i'll have a closer look tomorrow, for now i'd just say that that steel chain protein analogy is okay, however if you wanted to convey directionality of hydrogen bonds, then every link is magnetized, and really these links are not welded shut, but instead bolted, so you can disassemble them and put them together again with some effort. continuing this analogy, diamondoids would be elaborate welded assembly of stiff H-beams or something like that

i see that EY tries to "get" materials science from first principles, in true aristotelian fashion, never reading first year BSc level chemistry textbook, fails badly and can't even comprehend that he can be wrong. in other words, another tuesday