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Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics

COMPLEXITY

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The AC Is Keeping Us From Communicating With Extraterrestrials

I still don't understand how do you want to keep the AC that low, how are you not all the time called. It's like, hopefully we grow out of that or maybe not growing out of that is inhibiting our ability to communicate with extraterrestrials. But I mean but that's built into the sort of fundamental value of diversity in living systems right? That's why sexual recombination exists in the first place so we're a victim of our own success. True. Okay so I want to cool down this conversation about 20 degrees and leave this where you kind of teased at the beginning of this episode with something, you know, more grounded and practical than these enormous abstract concerns

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