THE VIDEO SHELF · origin of life
James Tour: The Mystery of the Origin of Life
Synthetic organic chemist James Tour gives a lecture arguing that origin-of-life research is far from explaining how life began. The talk was published by the Discovery Institute and drew sharp criticism.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended by some as a blunt expert critique of origin-of-life research, while others question its claims and length.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Discovery Science
- Topic
- origin of life
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
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From the original HN conversations
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Oh, well the 'current' argument is that it's unlikely for a bunch of reasons. - cambrian explosion of life is seen as unlikely given that changing random genes or dna mutations has such a low success rate in generating new life, that an explosion of …
friendlybus on Hacker News · 2020-11
In I should have loved biology> Afaik we are very close to artificially creating living cells. This is one recent example [1]. I beg to differ. It may look impressive on the surface, just like GPT-3 looks impressive on the surface, but is far from the real thing. It is …
freediver on Hacker News · 2022-04
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