Lex Fridman: belief

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…For a very long time before they captured mitochondria somehow, right? I don’t see why not, why AI couldn’t help with that. Some kind of simulation. Again, it’s a bit of a search process through a combinatorial space. Here’s all the chemical soup that you start with, the primordial soup, that maybe was on earth near these hot vents. Here’s some initial conditions. Can you generate something that looks like a cell? So perhaps that would be a next stage after the virtual cell project is well, how could something like that emerge from the chemical soup? Well, I would love it if there was a Move 37 for the origin of life. I think that’s one of the great mysteries. I think ultimately what we’ll figure out is their continuum. There’s no such thing as a line between non-living and living. But if we can make that rigorous. Yes.…

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