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by avadodin 27 days ago
He's saying that it will kill you because some other process has evolved to depend on the same genetic code.

GTAGGA turning into GTACCA may make you sleep 8 fewer hours but also keep you from producing haemoglobin.

It's like leveraging a qsort implementation from your mp3 player to develop your OS scheduling algorithm.

His argument is that there is nothing essential about its apparent function(playing mp3s).
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fc417fc802 27 days ago
No one here said anything about genetic code.

If he articulated a particular essential process and why it depends on sleep in an incidental manner that might make for a reasonable hypothesis. However it would not refute the earlier (cited) claim that there is no consensus.

As presented without any concrete information about the processes involved it doesn't even qualify as a hypothesis, merely empty handwaving. In context it's even worse, being an entirely baseless contradiction of a claim pulled from a prominent paper.

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avadodin 26 days ago
I never agreed with him but all of that is implied. It being informed speculation included.

Also there being no consensus means most scientists who touch on the topic are FFA speculating except the person stating there is no consensus in the overview. It's not "settled science" but rather the opposite.

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