Given a supply of energy and a lot of time, random search (and a selection criterion) is enough for order to emerge out of chaos. If you're not in a hurry, you can solve any problem this way. No intelligence required.
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That's likely how life originally emerged: random search over molecule combinations, producing increasingly complex molecules, amino acids, and proteins, until hitting the first assemblage that could spontaneously copy itself. Not unlike random-search powered program synthesis
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The history of life has been a lengthy upgrade from random search to genetic search. The next upgrade is intelligent design: humans (and their AI assistants) designing what's next
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This is how I invented the omelette
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On the way to entropy, the universe seems to like increasing amounts of interconnection and complexity. Life could be a high-order subset of that phenomenon.
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It is very tempting to think that way, but I disagree. I know a few others who might, like late Freeman Dyson.
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Then the question becomes: can we quantify the probability of such event to have occurred?
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except that life was not "searched", it just happened
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Came across this excellent article recently about the work of Tibor Ganti. These are the kinds of ideas we should be teaching kids as examples of inductive thinkinghttps://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1339684853160292354 …
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