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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Do You Build a Search Engine for Chemistry?
Lee: I like writing grants to ask money to do cool stuff. But years ago, I started wanting to build. So I built a robot in my lab called the computer which is this robot you can program to do chemistry. Now I made a programming language for the computer and made it operate chemical equipment. Originally, I wrote grants to say, Hey, I want to make an origin of life system. No one would give me any money for this. It's really hard. You're not a very good origin of life chemist anyway. Why would we give you any money? And so I turned it around and said, can you can instead, can you give me money to make robots
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