Dwarkesh (host)

So I just asked Gemini to make a new column called Content Type.

And then it came up with a formula to do this to distinguish between the two different types of content.

Another example, I was curious to see how many episodes we had done about different topics.

And I didn't have any historical tags that I'd made for this, but I was just able to ask Gemini to use each episode's description to assign topics and then sum everything together to get a breakdown by category.

Gemini lets you turn these big chunks of unstructured text into the type of data that you can actually sum and count and then use as the basis of different formulas.

Gemini in Sheets is now available for Google Workspace users.

I found it helpful for my podcast, and you might find it helpful as well.

All right, back to Nick.

This is not my inclination, but if I was a sort of God-fearing person, I would hear this and I'd be like, wow, this is a sort of vindication of intelligent design, where the laws of the universe just favor this chemistry which leads to life, at least according to this story, so strongly that it's hard to resist this formation.

Okay, so very basic question, but if life is not only abundant but almost inevitable in all these rocky planets, then the bottleneck to not seeing aliens everywhere presumably is eukaryotes, which lead to complexity.

So it would have to be the case that out of billions of potential planets that could give rise to Eukaryotes, only on Earth does this chance occurrence happen.

I wouldn't argue that.

Okay.

Why is it supposedly this hard to...

have this successful endosymbiotic event?

I guess given how many bacteria in our care there are,

you know, through Earth's history, there's like trillion, trillion, trillion of these running around.

And there's many situations in which there was an endosymbiosis.

And in only one case it succeeded.

So the odds would have to just be like remarkable.