Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedLee Cronin: belief
9 Dec 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
“I’m sure I make mistakes on that.I argue lots with Sara and she’s shocked. I’ve argued with Joscha, Joscha Bach, in the past and he is like, “You’re just making that up.”
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- Speaker
- Lee Cronin
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 9 Dec 2023
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Yeah, I’ve seen you be pretty aggressively critical but every time I’ve seen, it’s the idea, not the person. I’m sure I make mistakes on that.I argue lots with Sara and she’s shocked. I’ve argued with Joscha, Joscha Bach, in the past and he is like, “You’re just making that up. ” And I’m like, “No, not quite. But kind of.” But I had a big argument with Sara about time and she’s like, “No, time doesn’t exist.” I’m like, “No, no, time does exist.” And as she realized that her conception of assembly theory and my conception of assembly theory was the same thing, necessitated us to abandon the fact that time is eternal, to actually really fundamentally question how the universe produces combinatorial novelty. So time is fundamental for assembly theory? I’m just trying to figure out where you and Sara converged.…
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