zslastman comments on Avoid inflationary use of terms - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CasioTheSane 02 June 2012 06:40:55AM *  1 point [-]

I agree, those biology terms are really overused and no longer carry any useful meaning. I regret having used "high throughput" in things I wrote a few years ago...

For the most part "systems biology" is just a less overused euphemism for cybernetics, and we all know what happened to that (as I mentioned in another post in this thread).

Comment author: zslastman 05 June 2012 08:54:13PM 0 points [-]

I had a lecturer teaching genomics who didn't really believe there was such a thing. He told me about a conference he went to in the 90's where dozens of people told him they were "chaoticians".