Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedLee Cronin: uncertainty
9 Dec 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
“I always understood the copy number is really important, but I never explained it properly, for ages. And I kept having this, it goes back to this, if I give you a, I don’t know, a really complicated molecule, and I say it’s complicated, you could say, “Hey, that’s really complicated.”
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- Lee Cronin
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- uncertainty
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- 9 Dec 2023
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Can you just linger on this copy number thing? A million different copies, what do you mean by copies and why is the number of copies important? Yeah, that was so interesting. I always understood the copy number is really important, but I never explained it properly, for ages. And I kept having this, it goes back to this, if I give you a, I don’t know, a really complicated molecule, and I say it’s complicated, you could say, “Hey, that’s really complicated. ” But is it just really random? Mm-hmm.…
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