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Why Yudkowsky is wrong about "covalently bonded equivalents of biology" (titotal.substack.com)
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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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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thanks for all the effort, also that you post these on all the various LW-sphere related places. Interesting to see the various places react.

E: 18 hours later, I notice that on LW your 38 vote score went down to 30 while the amount of votes increased from 17 to 70, and on EA it also dropped from a higher positive (forgot how high) to a sad 9.

[-] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 12 points 9 months ago

I must have missed the class in material physics where they explained that all material has a generic "strength" that determine which material can cut which. Is it perhaps abbreviated STR?

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago

Only someone with high INT can discover this brilliant theory. As luck would have it, they have high CHR too!

[-] locallynonlinear@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately such characters tend to dump stat WIS.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago

He never played dwarf fortress confirmed, else he would be talking about shearing, compression, tearing, impact and whatever else values DF uses for materials.

[-] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

The so called "experts" say that spider silk is stronger than steel, but steel beams can hold up bridges while I can break a spider web with my little finger. Looks like the "experts" are wrong and spider silk isn't very strong after all - probably because it's made of proteins held together by weak van der Waals forces instead of covalent bonds.

[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

@GorillasAreForEating @mountainriver

Yes but if you had a five ton, meter wide strand of spider silk…

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