Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedNick Lane: uncertainty
10 Oct 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
“Ursula Mittwoch argued that that was exactly the case. We don’t know for a fact that that’s true.”
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- Nick Lane
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- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 10 Oct 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…Interesting. Is this why women live longer? Ursula Mittwoch argued that that was exactly the case. We don’t know for a fact that that’s true. But it’s quite common that females live longer than males, not just in humans, but in Drosophila as well, they usually do. Suppose that evolution on humans just continued naturally for the next billion years. We didn’t have AGI and human gene editing, et cetera. Is the equilibrium that you’d anticipate that the Y chromosome would then just fade away altogether and there’d be some other way of determining sex and sex-dependent characteristics?…
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