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Lee Cronin

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

Yeah.

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

Yeah.

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

Yeah, I'd say so. I'd agree. So I've started an assembly theory of emoticons with my lab, believe it or not. So we take emojis, pixelate them, and work out the assembly index for the emoji. And then work out how many emojis you can make on the path of emojis. So there's the Uber emoji from which all other emojis emerge. So you can then take a photograph, and by looking at the shortest path...

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

Yeah, I'd say so. I'd agree. So I've started an assembly theory of emoticons with my lab, believe it or not. So we take emojis, pixelate them, and work out the assembly index for the emoji. And then work out how many emojis you can make on the path of emojis. So there's the Uber emoji from which all other emojis emerge. So you can then take a photograph, and by looking at the shortest path...

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

Yeah, I'd say so. I'd agree. So I've started an assembly theory of emoticons with my lab, believe it or not. So we take emojis, pixelate them, and work out the assembly index for the emoji. And then work out how many emojis you can make on the path of emojis. So there's the Uber emoji from which all other emojis emerge. So you can then take a photograph, and by looking at the shortest path...

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

by reproducing the pixels to make the image you want, you can measure that. So then you start to be able to take spatial data. Now there's some problems there. What is then the definition of the object? How many pixels? How do you break it down? And so we're just learning all this right now.

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

by reproducing the pixels to make the image you want, you can measure that. So then you start to be able to take spatial data. Now there's some problems there. What is then the definition of the object? How many pixels? How do you break it down? And so we're just learning all this right now.

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

by reproducing the pixels to make the image you want, you can measure that. So then you start to be able to take spatial data. Now there's some problems there. What is then the definition of the object? How many pixels? How do you break it down? And so we're just learning all this right now.

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

So you would, first of all, determine the resolution. So then what is your X, Y, and what is the number on the X and Y plane? And then look at the surface area. And then you take all your emojis and make sure they're all looked at the same resolution. Yes. And then we would basically then... do exactly the same thing we would do for cutting the bonds.

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

So you would, first of all, determine the resolution. So then what is your X, Y, and what is the number on the X and Y plane? And then look at the surface area. And then you take all your emojis and make sure they're all looked at the same resolution. Yes. And then we would basically then... do exactly the same thing we would do for cutting the bonds.

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

So you would, first of all, determine the resolution. So then what is your X, Y, and what is the number on the X and Y plane? And then look at the surface area. And then you take all your emojis and make sure they're all looked at the same resolution. Yes. And then we would basically then... do exactly the same thing we would do for cutting the bonds.

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

You'd cut bits out of the emoji and look at the – you'd have a bag of pixels, and you would then add those pixels together to make the overall emoji.

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

You'd cut bits out of the emoji and look at the – you'd have a bag of pixels, and you would then add those pixels together to make the overall emoji.

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

You'd cut bits out of the emoji and look at the – you'd have a bag of pixels, and you would then add those pixels together to make the overall emoji.

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

So in the same way in chemistry we assume the bond is fundamental, what we do in there here is we assume the resolution at the scale at which we do it is fundamental. And we're just working that out. And you're right, that will change, right? Because as you take your lens out a bit, it will change dramatically.

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

So in the same way in chemistry we assume the bond is fundamental, what we do in there here is we assume the resolution at the scale at which we do it is fundamental. And we're just working that out. And you're right, that will change, right? Because as you take your lens out a bit, it will change dramatically.

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

So in the same way in chemistry we assume the bond is fundamental, what we do in there here is we assume the resolution at the scale at which we do it is fundamental. And we're just working that out. And you're right, that will change, right? Because as you take your lens out a bit, it will change dramatically.

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

But it's just a new way of looking at not just compression, what we do right now in computer science and data, one big kind of... kind of misunderstanding is assembly theory is telling you about how compressed the object is. That's not right. It's a, how much information is required on a chain of events.

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

But it's just a new way of looking at not just compression, what we do right now in computer science and data, one big kind of... kind of misunderstanding is assembly theory is telling you about how compressed the object is. That's not right. It's a, how much information is required on a chain of events.

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

But it's just a new way of looking at not just compression, what we do right now in computer science and data, one big kind of... kind of misunderstanding is assembly theory is telling you about how compressed the object is. That's not right. It's a, how much information is required on a chain of events.