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Lee Cronin

Chemist

Lee Cronin appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, agi, geopolitics. Lex describes Lee Cronin as chemist.

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2023

1 appearance

Lex Fridman Podcast / December 9, 2023 / Episode #404

Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

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Lee Cronin is a chemist at University of Glasgow.

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Every star in the sky probably has planets and life is probably emerging on these planets. But I think the commentorial space associated with these planets is so different. Our causal cones are never going to overlap or not easily. And this is the thing that makes me sad about alien life, why we have to create alien life in the lab as quickly as possible because I don't know if we are going to be able to build architectures that will intersect with alien intelligence architectures. Intersect, you don't mean in time or space-

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2022

2 appearances

Lex Fridman Podcast / April 24, 2022 / Episode #279

Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

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Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist. Lee Cronin is a chemist. This is a conversation and debate about alien life and alien civilizations.

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Communication with aliens

Sara Walker and Lex Fridman discuss communication with aliens.

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