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EP 192 David Krakauer on Science, Complexity and AI

The Jim Rutt Show

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The Paradox of Evolutionary Time

evolutionary time is measured through the assembly index, and that complexity is collinear with the assembly index. And so physical theory produces structures at equilibrium with low assembly index. Without life, you can't get to assembly index of any higher than 13 or 14,. With life you can get to maybe 35, with human technology, maybe 50 or 100. It's a second low-like argument.

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