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• Moz commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  There's some kind of folk saying about throwing muck at the wall and seeing what sticks that is probably relevant here. "Take a few million comets, some balls of rock, mix vigorously then leave to settle. A froth will form on one of the balls of rock"....
• Scott Sanford commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Namely a suite of all those pre-existing amino acids, plus conditions similar to early Earth & simply let it run & ... see what happens? Experimental biologists haven't been standing still in the last 70 years. (Here in the US the creationists are very angry about this and are flailing around with increasingly incoherent protests.) Last month I saw an article on improved cell wall synthesis under early-Earth conditions but the only thing I can find now is behind a pay wall. Recently there's been some interesting proto-life chemistry found, showing both self replication and metabolism. This one doesn't seem...
• Heteromeles commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Re-run the Miller-Urey experiment, with different starting blocks? Namely a suite of all those pre-existing amino acids, plus conditions similar to early Earth & simply let it run & ... see what happens? As Scott noted, it's been done. Miller-Urey experiments would be lab exercises now, except that they take so long to run. The more fundamental point, which is why I'm writing this, is that biochemists, despite their truthful protestations that cells are more complicated than any human really understands, know huge amounts about the chemistry of life. They can make defensible hypotheses about why some set of amino...
• Pigeon commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  I find the language of your last two sentences particularly appropriate, since one of my prescriptions is for a modified amino acid to make me produce runnier snot....
• Troutwaxer commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Dude, TMI. https://xkcd.com/1369/...