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DNA is like source code written one line at a time with a million branches each with a different engineer that merge once or twice after 20 years of random hacks whose merge conflict resolution is non deterministic and error prone yet amazingly produces syntax errors very rarely*.

I take umbrage with the idea this is a technology from millions of years in the future. It’s literally the background noise technology that just shows up if you do nothing for 16 billion quarters.

*unless you merge with a first cousin.



If you're making a comparison to code, then DNA is just so much more. It's an approximately four billion years old legacy codebase, where execution depends on so much more than just one "line".




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