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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Shortest Path Is Not the Average
Lee Krasnoff: When I basically take the molecules and chop them up in the mass spec, the assembly number is never the average is always the shortest. It's an intrinsic property. Shortest path needs you to identify when the universe has basically got a memory, not an average. So that's like, of course, there's going to be other paths. We can be more ridiculous, right? We can have other parts, but it's just the minimum. And so what we realized time and time again, when we're doing the math, the shortest path is intrinsic, is fundamental and is measurable," he says.
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