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Bit like a codebase where different parts slowly accrete extra features that presume the presence of the other parts, so that you eventually have to read the wh
by medstrom 2y ago
Bit like a codebase where different parts slowly accrete extra features that presume the presence of the other parts, so that you eventually have to read the whole to follow anything.
- exe34 2y agoWorse, with code, you might be able to read all the parts in order to figure out what it does - given the language and/or the CPU architecture. With biology, the code is running against nature, so the instruction set includes assumptions like "but if these two get close enough, then this other reaction occurs first". I suspect it can get so complicated that the only way to find out what it does is to run it.