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Lee Cronin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

you know how what do i do today to prove i'm smart and they were like nothing you can't i was like give me a job you know give me something to do give me a job to do something to do as we um and i kind of felt like that a bit when i was arguing with the and not arguing there's no ad hominem i wasn't telling the editor they were idiots or anything like this or the the reviewers i kept it strictly like factual and all i did is i just kept knocking it down bit by bit by bit by bit by bit

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

you know how what do i do today to prove i'm smart and they were like nothing you can't i was like give me a job you know give me something to do give me a job to do something to do as we um and i kind of felt like that a bit when i was arguing with the and not arguing there's no ad hominem i wasn't telling the editor they were idiots or anything like this or the the reviewers i kept it strictly like factual and all i did is i just kept knocking it down bit by bit by bit by bit by bit

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

It was ultimately rejected and it got published elsewhere. And then the actual experimental data. So this is kind of, in this paper, the experimental justification was already published. So when we did this one and we went through the versions and then we sent it in and in the end it just got accepted, we were like, well, that's kind of cool, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

It was ultimately rejected and it got published elsewhere. And then the actual experimental data. So this is kind of, in this paper, the experimental justification was already published. So when we did this one and we went through the versions and then we sent it in and in the end it just got accepted, we were like, well, that's kind of cool, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

It was ultimately rejected and it got published elsewhere. And then the actual experimental data. So this is kind of, in this paper, the experimental justification was already published. So when we did this one and we went through the versions and then we sent it in and in the end it just got accepted, we were like, well, that's kind of cool, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

This is kind of like, you know, some days you have, you know, the student, sorry, the first author was like, I can't believe it got accepted. I was like, nor am I. But it's great. It's good. And then when the paper was published, I was not expecting the backlash.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

This is kind of like, you know, some days you have, you know, the student, sorry, the first author was like, I can't believe it got accepted. I was like, nor am I. But it's great. It's good. And then when the paper was published, I was not expecting the backlash.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

This is kind of like, you know, some days you have, you know, the student, sorry, the first author was like, I can't believe it got accepted. I was like, nor am I. But it's great. It's good. And then when the paper was published, I was not expecting the backlash.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

I was expecting computational... No, actually, I was just expecting one person had been trolling me for a while about it, just to carry on trolling. But I didn't expect the backlash. And then I wrote to the editor and apologized. And the editor was like, what are you apologizing for? It was a great paper. Of course it's going to get backlash. You said some controversial stuff. But it's awesome.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

I was expecting computational... No, actually, I was just expecting one person had been trolling me for a while about it, just to carry on trolling. But I didn't expect the backlash. And then I wrote to the editor and apologized. And the editor was like, what are you apologizing for? It was a great paper. Of course it's going to get backlash. You said some controversial stuff. But it's awesome.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

I was expecting computational... No, actually, I was just expecting one person had been trolling me for a while about it, just to carry on trolling. But I didn't expect the backlash. And then I wrote to the editor and apologized. And the editor was like, what are you apologizing for? It was a great paper. Of course it's going to get backlash. You said some controversial stuff. But it's awesome.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

That's the science. As I said to, you know, when it got accepted, and people were saying, were kind of like hacking on it. And I was like...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

That's the science. As I said to, you know, when it got accepted, and people were saying, were kind of like hacking on it. And I was like...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

That's the science. As I said to, you know, when it got accepted, and people were saying, were kind of like hacking on it. And I was like...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

papers are not gold medals the reason i wanted to publish that paper in nature is because it says hey there's something before biological evolution you have to have that if you're not a creationist by the way this is an approach first time someone has put a concrete mechanism or sorry a concrete quantification and what comes next you're pushing on is a mechanism and

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

papers are not gold medals the reason i wanted to publish that paper in nature is because it says hey there's something before biological evolution you have to have that if you're not a creationist by the way this is an approach first time someone has put a concrete mechanism or sorry a concrete quantification and what comes next you're pushing on is a mechanism and

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

papers are not gold medals the reason i wanted to publish that paper in nature is because it says hey there's something before biological evolution you have to have that if you're not a creationist by the way this is an approach first time someone has put a concrete mechanism or sorry a concrete quantification and what comes next you're pushing on is a mechanism and

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

And that's what we need to get to is an autocanalytic set, self-replicating molecules, some other features that come in. And the fact that this paper has been so discussed, for me, is a dream come true. Like, it doesn't get better than that. If you can't accept a few people hating it, and the nice thing is, the thing that really makes me happy

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

And that's what we need to get to is an autocanalytic set, self-replicating molecules, some other features that come in. And the fact that this paper has been so discussed, for me, is a dream come true. Like, it doesn't get better than that. If you can't accept a few people hating it, and the nice thing is, the thing that really makes me happy

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

And that's what we need to get to is an autocanalytic set, self-replicating molecules, some other features that come in. And the fact that this paper has been so discussed, for me, is a dream come true. Like, it doesn't get better than that. If you can't accept a few people hating it, and the nice thing is, the thing that really makes me happy