Evidence receipt / prediction
Published · transcript-backedNick Lane: prediction
10 Oct 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
“I would expect that if you’ve got these same conditions on a wet, rocky planet, you’re going to be producing these same vents because it’s the same chemistry that’s going to happen.”
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- Nick Lane
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- prediction
- Recorded
- 10 Oct 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…What fraction of them would you say have a non-eukaryotic life? I’ll take a punt here. I would expect that if you’ve got these same conditions on a wet, rocky planet, you’re going to be producing these same vents because it’s the same chemistry that’s going to happen. So even the vents are not contingent in your view?…
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