@NickSzabo4 @cinnamon_carter Why does it need to catch to grow or spread or evolve w/o competition? Does not catching prove panspermia?
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@NickSzabo4@cinnamon_carter It's still unclear if 'genomes' proper are needed or if RNA World (or pre-RNA!) didn't do both simultaneously.
@gwern @cinnamon_carter The issue is the complexity needed to encode, whether in RNA or DNA, metabolic functions.
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@NickSzabo4@cinnamon_carter The issue is assumption length must follow a exact linear form extrapolated back 9bya from present-day data. -
@gwern@NickSzabo4 If most depend on the previous this is a logical method to begin, at least as a baseline. -
@cinnamon_carter@gwern +1 It's just a simple way to formalize the general idea that evolution proceeds gradually, not by miraculous leaps. -
@cinnamon_carter@gwern And follow gradualism all the way back to origins. If anybody has a better model that does that let's hear about it. -
@NickSzabo4@cinnamon_carter There are many distributions more plausible in biology: sigmoids and logistics are all over the place. -
@gwern I have no personal feelings on this subject other than scientific accuracy. May I ask your personal feelings if any ?@NickSzabo4 -
@cinnamon_carter@NickSzabo4 I think it's trash science which is based on obfuscating statistics. I hate bad statistics everywhere I see it. -
@gwern Your replies seem so spirited. If this paper described a football game (hypothetically) your reaction would be the same?@NickSzabo4 - 1 more reply
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