@gwern @cinnamon_carter In other words, the first self-sustaining ecosystem had to be vastly simpler than efficiently compressed prokaryote.
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@NickSzabo4@cinnamon_carter Nevertheless, early Earth would have a great variety of organic chemicals to harvest. That is a big opportunity
@gwern @cinnamon_carter What kinds of organics? What 150 base pair ecosystem could exploit them? Be specific stop hand-waving.
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@NickSzabo4@cinnamon_carter It would use the amino acids and nuclear acids floating around, you know that. The usual abiogenesis proposals. -
@gwern@cinnamon_carter A 150 base pair ecosystem can't catch, much less put to use, most of the amino & nuclear acids floating around. -
@NickSzabo4@cinnamon_carter Why does it need to catch to grow or spread or evolve w/o competition? Does not catching prove panspermia? -
@gwern@cinnamon_carter Many far more likely places in universe to find stable amino+nucleic acid soup than bombardment-era Earth. -
@NickSzabo4@cinnamon_carter Be that as it may, what does that have to do with linearity of genomes as clocks and that paper's model? -
@gwern@cinnamon_carter Linearity is just a good initial way to avoid "and now a miracle occurred" assumptions that plague these debates. -
@NickSzabo4@cinnamon_carter Arggh. No, the linearity drives the entire extrapolation beyond Earth in that paper! -
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@NickSzabo4@cinnamon_carter So, why expect exact linearity over billions of years and never fast early growth? Be specific stop handwaving.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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