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#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
Lex Fridman Podcast
Dec 09, 2023
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3 hr 28 min
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Lee Cronin is a chemist at University of Glasgow. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - NetSuite:
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OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (09:37) - Assembly theory paper (30:06) - Assembly equation (43:19) - Discovering alien life (1:01:38) - Evolution of life on Earth (1:09:34) - Response to criticism (1:27:12) - Kolmogorov complexity (1:39:02) - Nature review process (1:59:56) - Time and free will (2:06:21) - Communication with aliens (2:28:19) - Cellular automata (2:32:48) - AGI (2:49:36) - Nuclear weapons (2:55:22) - Chem Machina (3:08:16) - GPT for electron density (3:17:46) - God
