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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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Quoth Yud:

Algae are tiny microns-wide solar-powered fully self-replicating factories that run on general assemblers, "ribosomes", that can replicate most other products of biology given digital instructions.

Ribosomes ... make proteins.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

and not even finished proteins

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