Public evidence record
Published podcast speaker
Claim ledger
4 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“Only under certain conditions will you do better. So predictably, the endpoint is that it doesn’t work.”
02 / evaluation
“If you’re starting with CO2 and hydrogen, what I’m saying is the metabolism is thermodynamically favored chemistry. This same chemistry will just go on happening because if you react hydrogen with CO2, and with another CO2 molecule, the parts of the molecules that are going to react are quite predictable.”
03 / evaluation
“You mass-produce them and the chances are it’s going to work out okay because the ones that can swim best, for example, are the ones that are more likely to… That’s not strictly true, but you can imagine it along those lines.”
04 / evaluation
“But there’s a deep problem which goes back. It’s the mind-body problem, but it was framed by David Chalmers as the hard problem of consciousness, which boils down, as my understanding of this is, to more or less that we don’t know what a feeling is in physical terms.”