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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] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What I mean specifically is, he wrote:

The nanomachinery builds diamondoid bacteria, that replicate with solar power and atmospheric CHON, maybe aggregate into some miniature rockets or jets so they can ride the jetstream to spread across the Earth's atmosphere, get into human bloodstreams and hide, strike on a timer.

Would "diamondoid bacteria" be inherently, significantly better at killing us? Or wait is he imagining the bacteria literally slashing at us???

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

From what I could understand is that he talks about diamondoid (and these other things) just because he has read one book about the subject. ‘Nanosystems’ by Drexler apparantly. (Never read it, can't say anything about it).

I'm not sure Yud is really engaging with what is being said vs just going on and on about how AGI can kill us all via nanomachines (son), because handwave theory something.

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

It's like he heard the phrase "flesh-eating bacteria" and decided they would be more scarier if they had tiny knives and forks.

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

The worst part is when they start to season you with salt and pepper...