The problems I see with AI, fake people, fake data, political manipulation.

And so what all the dooms are doing, they're literally making stuff up.

Because there is no mechanism by which an AGI can become super intelligent, get control

the systems, have agency, and do anything.

It is nonsense. We think that

AIs have anywhere near the creativity or potentiality of living systems. They are nothing. They

are nothing compared to living systems. Complex multicellular creatures have agency, and AI has none.

Hi there, I'm Lee Kronin.

I'm the region's professor of chemistry at the University of Glasgow and also the CEO of a company

called Chemify.

And I want to find out how life started.

All right, let's just start with one of the questions that I feel like everybody thinks

about when they're younger, which is why something not nothing?

I would ask the other way around why nothing and not something.

And so I think the problem is that the fact that, well, it's actually the simplest question to answer, I think, is existence

is the only thing that happens when causation is possible. And so the ridiculous thing is, the

fact that matter exists in the way it does means that it's been able to fight against randomness

in the background.

And that's kind of obvious, but actually deeply profound.

The mechanism by which matter of any structure exists in the universe is because it has had to survive against degradation.

And so why something?

Happenstance, selection, causation, and evolution.

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