This is my article on one of the dumbest and most obviously false claims Yudkowsky has ever made, about biology not using covalent bonds.

  • @mountainriver
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    131 year ago

    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?

    • @gerikson
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      91 year ago

      Only someone with high INT can discover this brilliant theory. As luck would have it, they have high CHR too!

      • @locallynonlinear
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        81 year ago

        Unfortunately such characters tend to dump stat WIS.

    • @Soyweiser
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      81 year ago

      He never played dwarf fortress confirmed, else he would be talking about shearing, compression, tearing, impact and whatever else values DF uses for materials.

    • @GorillasAreForEating
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      81 year ago

      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.