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raginrayguns:

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raginrayguns:

enzymes are nanomachines and it’s weird that they just happened, nobody designed them, but… they also don’t LOOK like anyone designed them.

like watch on a beach metaphor is a little off… like yes this is functional like a watch, but it’s also clearly not designed according to any design principles. You can’t look at it and infer the thoughts of its creator. It’s some tangled blob.

like, yeah… if polymers tangled into blobs that did something important basically by coincidence, a coincidence preserved by replication and selection… it WOULD look like this. An engineered device wouldn’t look like this i dont think, it would look like the diagrams in Drexler’s thesis

aha but what if it were engineered in a low trust environment

god obfuscated His nanomachines to prevent His competitors from creating their own life

alas if there were robust intellectual property rights in heaven He wouldn’t have had the need \ud83d\ude14

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