David_Gerard comments on Partial Transcript of the Hanson-Yudkowsky June 2011 Debate - Less Wrong

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 19 April 2012 08:37:29AM 4 points [-]

Most of our 750 megabytes of DNA is repetitive and almost certainly junk, as best we understand it.

Is anyone taking rat embryos, removing chunks of "junk dna", and seeing what happens?

Comment author: David_Gerard 19 April 2012 03:17:47PM 2 points [-]

You couldn't grow a human cell from just the DNA - there's mitochondria, for example. What else needs to come along with the minimum information package?