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Re:This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again by Kim_Bruning on Thursday March 14, 2013 @06:07AM (#5374052)
Right, but those sophisticated replicators are so sophisticated that they tend to be rather tolerant of their input.

There's no reason to think we can't science out what that input needs to be, or at least to be able to find one or more valid subsets of input.

This is a rather large improvement over what most people do; one typically applies little to no science whatsoever. :-P

Re:This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again by pyre on Thursday March 14, 2013 @10:15AM (#5375057)
The liver is pretty tolerate of alcohol, but a lifetime of alcohol use can cause liver issues.
Re:This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again by Kim_Bruning on Thursday March 14, 2013 @12:39PM (#5376016)
Right; the downside of a tolerant system is that it does not fail hard. This does not, however, preclude finding the system limits by use of the scientific method. It just makes it a tad trickier at times.

I'm getting the idea that people profess a "belief in science" in the general case, but then absolutely deny its applicability in the specific case here. ;-)