Comment by ThomasPilgrim on Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible · 2023-12-14T18:21:55.791Z · LW · GW

I am not saying plieotropy doesn't exist. I'm saying it's not as big of a deal as most people in the field assume it is.

Molecular biologists should be in charge of AI research and regulation, because AGI is not as big of a deal as AI researchers who work in the field assume it is. 

Comment by ThomasPilgrim on Why Yudkowsky is wrong about "covalently bonded equivalents of biology" · 2023-12-06T21:52:31.288Z · LW · GW

The structural proteins in the extracellular matrix and connective tissue (namely collagen and elastin) tend to have covalent crosslinks. So I I'm really not sure it's accurate to say that hydrogen bonds and van der Waals forces are what's holding the cells together.