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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* (last edited 11 months ago) (36 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (35 children)

Big Yud himself responded:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/aCEAczDuRrZihaLNA/why-yudkowsky-is-wrong-about-covalently-bonded-equivalents?commentId=ea3XoopDbvdmF7JbA

edit: there's lesswrong thread too: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8viKzSrYhb6EFk6wg/why-yudkowsky-is-wrong-about-covalently-bonded-equivalents

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.