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Why Yudkowsky is wrong about "covalently bonded equivalents of biology"
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The so called "experts" say that spider silk is stronger than steel, but steel beams can hold up bridges while I can break a spider web with my little finger. Looks like the "experts" are wrong and spider silk isn't very strong after all - probably because it's made of proteins held together by weak van der Waals forces instead of covalent bonds.
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Yes but if you had a five ton, meter wide strand of spider silk…