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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is the Assembling Index a Sign of Life?
The assembly index is supposed to be the minimal amount of history that the universe has to undergo in order to assemble that particular object. We figured out how to measure that with a mass spec in the lab, and we had this conjecture that if that minimal number of steps was sufficiently large, it would indicate that you required a machine or a system that had information about how to assemble that specific object. So there will be potentially a lot of arguments about where the line, a which assembly index does interesting stuff start to happen.
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