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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[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

so we're looking at something in the order of 2x more energy for pair of carbons than for putting single aminoacid in protein, and aminoacids are much larger. (some 4.2x70kJ/mol per ATP -> AMP + 2Pi), and that's including everything around protein synthesis except aminoacid synthesis, compared to just deposition of carbons (that's without picking them up?), and it's when you have clean prepared surface, in real life this also takes some considerable energy

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