army1987 comments on Neuroscience basics for LessWrongians - Less Wrong

84 Post author: ChrisHallquist 26 July 2012 05:10AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 27 July 2012 02:17:24PM 0 points [-]

How do we know whether, by replacing the insert with a random sequence of base pairs the same length, there would be no developmental defect either?

Comment author: dekelron 28 July 2012 11:04:08AM *  0 points [-]

There are several complications addressed in the article, which I did not describe. Anyway, using a "control vector" is considered trivial, and I believe they checked this.