Athena Aktipis
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 Jan
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There are many places where like you start to question the assumptions that are out there about how things work.
And, you know, sometimes there are a lot of really good reasons for those assumptions.
Other times they're not.
I, you know, I think we're kind of on the same page of like, you know, I like to be like, OK, first principles.
This is this is what we should assume.
Like, it's almost like a Bayesian kind of thing, like coming from first principles.
Here's what I think a reasonable assumption is.
But I think that, you know, it's important to prove.
Yeah, so it's important to acknowledge, right, that there's like a community of researchers who, you know, have been working with a particular frame, have made progress on problems with a particular frame.
And so I think that it's a good thing to frame it as like, you know, this is a...
This is a hypothesis that, you know, comes from these first principles.
It, you know, makes some predictions that could be tested and, you know, encouraging people to do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because I can't I can't do that.
That's the other thing is like I can't test all of the hypotheses myself that come from this.
And so it makes much more sense to it's like an opportunity for us to consider an alternative hypothesis based on evolutionary first principles.
Yeah, right.
So a lot of that, I think, is because
the very evolution of multicellularity required that that occur.
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