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26 Jun 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church
“We call it chemical / biochemical / exotic material libraries. The point is that they're libraries.”
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- George Church
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- 26 Jun 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…From bio? It's possible, from libraries. We call it chemical / biochemical / exotic material libraries. The point is that they're libraries. They're essentially based in some sense on polymers, even though pieces of them don't necessarily have to be polymers. Do you have a prediction by when we'll see this materials science revolution? What is standing between now and that? Because we've got AlphaFold right now. So what is the thing that we need? Do we need more data?…
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