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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

is that no one has attacked the actual physical content. Like you can measure the assembly index, you can measure selection now. So either that's right or it's, well, either that's helpful or unhelpful. If it's unhelpful, this paper will sink down and no one will use it again. If it's helpful, it'll help people scaffold on it and we'll start to converge to a new paradigm.

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

is that no one has attacked the actual physical content. Like you can measure the assembly index, you can measure selection now. So either that's right or it's, well, either that's helpful or unhelpful. If it's unhelpful, this paper will sink down and no one will use it again. If it's helpful, it'll help people scaffold on it and we'll start to converge to a new paradigm.

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

is that no one has attacked the actual physical content. Like you can measure the assembly index, you can measure selection now. So either that's right or it's, well, either that's helpful or unhelpful. If it's unhelpful, this paper will sink down and no one will use it again. If it's helpful, it'll help people scaffold on it and we'll start to converge to a new paradigm.

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

So I think that that's the thing that I wanted to see

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

So I think that that's the thing that I wanted to see

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

So I think that that's the thing that I wanted to see

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

you know my colleagues authors collaborators and people were like you've just published this paper you're a chemist why have you done this like who are you to be doing evolutionary theory like well i don't know i mean sorry did i need to who's anyone to do anything well i'm glad you did let me just before coming back to origin of life and these kinds of questions uh you mentioned learning difficulties i didn't know about this so what was it like

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

you know my colleagues authors collaborators and people were like you've just published this paper you're a chemist why have you done this like who are you to be doing evolutionary theory like well i don't know i mean sorry did i need to who's anyone to do anything well i'm glad you did let me just before coming back to origin of life and these kinds of questions uh you mentioned learning difficulties i didn't know about this so what was it like

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

you know my colleagues authors collaborators and people were like you've just published this paper you're a chemist why have you done this like who are you to be doing evolutionary theory like well i don't know i mean sorry did i need to who's anyone to do anything well i'm glad you did let me just before coming back to origin of life and these kinds of questions uh you mentioned learning difficulties i didn't know about this so what was it like

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

I wasn't very good at school, right?

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

I wasn't very good at school, right?

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

I wasn't very good at school, right?

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

Yeah, yeah. But in primary school, my handwriting was really poor and apparently I couldn't read and my mathematics was very poor. So they just said, this is a problem. They identified it. My parents kind of at the time were confused because I was busy taking things apart, buying electronic junk from the shop, trying to build computers and things.

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

Yeah, yeah. But in primary school, my handwriting was really poor and apparently I couldn't read and my mathematics was very poor. So they just said, this is a problem. They identified it. My parents kind of at the time were confused because I was busy taking things apart, buying electronic junk from the shop, trying to build computers and things.

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

Yeah, yeah. But in primary school, my handwriting was really poor and apparently I couldn't read and my mathematics was very poor. So they just said, this is a problem. They identified it. My parents kind of at the time were confused because I was busy taking things apart, buying electronic junk from the shop, trying to build computers and things.

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

And then once I got out of, when I was, I think about the major transition in my stupidity, like, you know, everyone thought I wasn't that stupid when I was, basically everyone thought I was faking, I like stuff and I was faking wanting to be it. So I always wanted to be a scientist. Mm-hmm. So five, six, seven years, I'll be a scientist, take things apart.

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

And then once I got out of, when I was, I think about the major transition in my stupidity, like, you know, everyone thought I wasn't that stupid when I was, basically everyone thought I was faking, I like stuff and I was faking wanting to be it. So I always wanted to be a scientist. Mm-hmm. So five, six, seven years, I'll be a scientist, take things apart.

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

And then once I got out of, when I was, I think about the major transition in my stupidity, like, you know, everyone thought I wasn't that stupid when I was, basically everyone thought I was faking, I like stuff and I was faking wanting to be it. So I always wanted to be a scientist. Mm-hmm. So five, six, seven years, I'll be a scientist, take things apart.

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

And everyone's like, yeah, this guy wants to be a scientist, but he's an idiot. And so, and so, so everyone was really confused. I think at first that I wasn't smarter than I, you know, was claiming to be. And then I just basically didn't do well in the test. I went down and down and down and down. And then, and I was kind of like, huh, this is really embarrassing. I really like science.

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

And everyone's like, yeah, this guy wants to be a scientist, but he's an idiot. And so, and so, so everyone was really confused. I think at first that I wasn't smarter than I, you know, was claiming to be. And then I just basically didn't do well in the test. I went down and down and down and down. And then, and I was kind of like, huh, this is really embarrassing. I really like science.