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Nature Paper: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9</a>
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OUTLINE:
Here&#8217;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) &#8211; Introduction
(09:37) &#8211; Assembly theory paper
(30:06) &#8211; Assembly equation
(43:19) &#8211; Discovering alien life
(1:01:38) &#8211; Evolution of life on Earth
(1:09:34) &#8211; Response to criticism
(1:27:12) &#8211; Kolmogorov complexity
(1:39:02) &#8211; Nature review process
(1:59:56) &#8211; Time and free will
(2:06:21) &#8211; Communication with aliens
(2:28:19) &#8211; Cellular automata
(2:32:48) &#8211; AGI
(2:49:36) &#8211; Nuclear weapons
(2:55:22) &#8211; Chem Machina
(3:08:16) &#8211; GPT for electron density
(3:17:46) &#8211; God

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