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Lumifer comments on Open Thread April 8 - April 14 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 10 April 2014 04:29:07PM 4 points [-]

I have a nagging voice in my head saying that I shouldn't bother learning biochemistry, because it won't be useful in the long term because everything will be based on nanotech and we will all be uploads. Is that a valid point?

No.

Think about the timelines involved.