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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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[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@GorillasAreForEating @mountainriver

Yes but if you had a five ton, meter wide strand of spider silk…