ThomasPilgrim

• ThomasPilgrim 14 Dec 2023 18:21 UTC

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  in reply to: GeneSmith’s comment on: Sig­nifi­cantly En­hanc­ing Adult In­tel­li­gence With Gene Edit­ing May Be Possible

  I am not saying plieotropy doesn’t exist. I’m saying it’s not as big of a deal as most people in the field assume it is.

  Molecular biologists should be in charge of AI research and regulation, because AGI is not as big of a deal as AI researchers who work in the field assume it is.

• ThomasPilgrim 6 Dec 2023 21:52 UTC

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  in reply to: Razied’s comment on: Why Yud­kowsky is wrong about “co­va­lently bonded equiv­a­lents of biol­ogy”

  The structural proteins in the extracellular matrix and connective tissue (namely collagen and elastin) tend to have covalent crosslinks. So I I’m really not sure it’s accurate to say that hydrogen bonds and van der Waals forces are what’s holding the cells together.