All right. The creativity argument may not work, but there's something that sort of immediately comes on its heels.

这些关于创造力的观点或许行不通,但是有些东西,随之而来

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But if you set out trying to implement this whole story line at once, if you set out trying to implement a cookie love story, it's just not gonna fly.

但是如果你一开始就想一次啃掉整块蛋糕,譬如你一开始就想,完成这个饼干人的爱情故事，你会发现这是行不通的。

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And as a consequence, brute force methods are typically not going to work.

一些有意思的事情的规模，以某种不可思议的比例在扩大,因此，蛮力的方法已经行不通了。

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we have regulation divided up in crazy archaic ways.

我们的调节措施会分为几个行不通的部分。

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Those two examples I just gave you, one had to directly inject a gene containing vector into the pronucleus of a fertilized egg and you don't have that opportunity in adults.

在我刚给出的两个例子里,一个必须得将带有目的基因的载体,直接注射到受精卵的原核中,这在成年人身上行不通

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And I think the example of the Evening Star and the Morning Star-- which is not at all original to me-- that this example shows, this counter example shows, that Descartes' original argument doesn't work either.

而且我认为晨星,和昏星的例子,这不是我原创的,这个例子说明,这个反例说明了,笛卡尔的原来的那个论证也行不通

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