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"It's not super productive to try and understand this stuff through analogy to computers and algorithms."

You mean like this: https://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna

Having worked in both industries I prefer working with wet science people. For some reason they generally have a much healthier perspective on life. Their work is humbling because it is, and will forever be, full of unsolved mysteries, not simply because it is challenging. The other folks, whether they call themselves "scientists" or "engineers" or "developers" or "coders" or whatever, are working with something that as far as I can see has no inherent connection to the natural world, other than being a production of the human mind. Perhap that affects the perspective many of them have on life. For example, how common among them is this belief that all things, not simply computers, can be thoroughly understood and mastered. Note this is pure opinion, not fact, and I am generalising; there are exceptions to every generalisation.

parent x3blah 6 years ago

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