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A reasonable reader will implicitly understand that the proteins have not, in fact, acquired sentience.
by 0_____0 6y ago
A reasonable reader will implicitly understand that the proteins have not, in fact, acquired sentience.
- blix 6y agoThis is what I tell myself every time I read an HN comment written by a collection of proteins.
- nate_meurer 6y agoI don't normally meta-comment on other comments, but this one is superb. It took me a moment to soak it in.
- natechols 6y agoTrue! Problem is, there are a lot of unreasonable readers too, many of them having strong opinions about natural versus directed processes.
- passivate 6y agoWell, you can't reason with unreasonable people :) That's the actual problem. Also, I strongly disagree with your view that a lot of them are reading scientific articles. The root problem is lack of science education/curiosity which needs to be addressed specifically, rather than forcing the rest of the world to adopt certain phrasing. Personally I like the romanticism/poetic style, it makes articles seem less bland, which makes me want to read them even more.
- uoaei 6y agoBased on my experience with otherwise reasonable readers who are relatively naive when it comes to biology, this is not the case.