billswift comments on Open Thread, May 16-31, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 17 May 2012 02:00:29PM *  0 points [-]

Genes and genetics go together in very nearly the same way as words and language.

Or, even more closely, as terms in a mass of spaghetti code.

Understanding the genetics of an organism is hard, because what they are trying to do is to simultaneously reverse engineer that mass of code and learn what the terms are.