2026-09-11 03:13 UTC
right? and even then you have to go slow with explanation, otherwise you just sound like a crank
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@BioMan@awful.systems 2026-09-11 06:17
It helped that the first person I explained this to at a conference was explicitly working on deconstructing models of the origin of complex life that imply that it’s slow and unlikely that have been uncritically accepted in a lot of circles without actual evidence, and he was already confused about why following the chain of citations bottomed out at weird no-name economist named Robin Hanson…