Bret Weinstein

I had a friend who sold cars, used to sell Hondas, and he told me that every time gas prices would go up, his business would be—everybody would be there.

Everybody wanted a Honda when gas was high.

Then as soon as gas came back down, they all came in to sell their Hondas because they wanted to go back to their big pickup trucks.

Like you said, people want, they don't want what EVs have today.

So either Lucid is just too early and that the adoption curve is further out into the future or there just is not a marketplace for EV other than what the cheap Chinese cars are going to be.

Yes, specifically I have alluded in a number of different places including here to there being another level to Darwinian evolution that does a lot of the heavy lifting that we require in order to explain the diversity of forms that we see in biology.

But I haven't been specific on what I believe that layer is.

And I felt like it was time.

I think, for one thing, the advances in AI mean that such things are going to emerge naturally.

And I wanted to put it on the table before it simply gets discovered as a matter of computing horsepower.

Right.

All right.

So let's talk biology.

And let me just say, you know, I know that's not everybody's bag, but I do think just about everybody has at some point listened to the story that we tell about adaptive evolution and wondered if

if it's really powerful enough to explain all of the creatures that we all know and love.

So the classic story is that you have a genome, that it contains a great many genes.

A gene is a sequence in DNA that results in proteins being produced.

The DNA describes exactly the sequence of amino acids in a protein.

And a protein would typically be one of two things.

It would either be an enzyme, which is a little bit misleading as a term, but an enzyme is a catalyst.