Yes, I enjoyed reading it. He walks through the geology, chemistry, physics, biology tying it in with information theory supplying the numbers and whips out the equations as he goes along. With that a mathematical model of his estimate could be built. He says he’s skeptical about AI proving the origin of life but it definitely could be used to fine tune his model and add some of the missing pieces.
On Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at 8:57 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > Life might have begun as single strand self replicating RNA driven by cycling > the temperature in a bath of bases like with PCR in DNA sequencing machines. > But we don't know. Nobody has made this work in a lab. Coincidentally, or someone’s playing a joke, read this analysis of the Buga Sphere’s visual morphology being a high-density information encoding language for peptide bio-synthesis. The existing positional glyphs decode as K-N-K-N-T-T-T-T-R-S-R-S-I-I-M-I-Q-H-Q-H-P-P-P-P with the central spider functioning as a programmable array of nanoscale electrodes: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5290130 I don’t know if this is an exact repro: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/buga-sphere-2e263300f1324a68af6299b2b99ea143 It's entertaining at least.... ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T1ff34dc69e862fc1-M9dfb3c18beed315428039a77 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
