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Lee Cronin: belief

9 Dec 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

“I think again, we can show that on a piece of paper, that sure. I think you have to have… So this is the failure in epidemiology.”

— Lee Cronin

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Speaker
Lee Cronin
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
9 Dec 2023
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…And that could be… I mean to me it’s not intuitive that you said prime numbers, that the system can’t generate an algorithm. That the algorithm that can generate prime numbers or the algorithm that can tell you if a number is prime and so on. And generate algorithms that generate algorithms, that generate algorithms that start to look a lot like human reasoning. I think again, we can show that on a piece of paper, that sure. I think you have to have… So this is the failure in epidemiology. I’m glad I even can say that word, let know what it means. You said it multiple times.…

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