David Steiner

@scrnwriterchic great thread. heartfelt and to the point

BE KIND TO THE ASSISTANTS. Today's assistants are tomorrow's executives. Please remember that. xoxo to you all. /end

I want to share something happens to me every once in a while. A thread. By Marti King Young A new screenwriter reached out and wanted the producer to read their script. I told them that the producer usually has me read all of the stuff sent to him first. They balked. 1/

@lexfridman @leecronin re novelty, one thing you didn't mention: AI training *does* include selection, the fundamental "novelty" force. deepmind training on starcraft - a life-like, open-ended system - is based on selection of winning strategies. just like evolution. LLM + selection = novelty? 😳

Here's my conversation with @leecronin, a chemist and co-author of a controversial new Nature paper on the origin and evolution of life and complexity. First 3 hours are here on X. 3 hours is the current upload limit. The rest is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:15 - Assembly theory paper 21:45 - Assembly equation 34:57 - Discovering alien life 53:16 - Evolution of life on Earth 1:01:12 - Response to criticism 1:18:50 - Kolmogorov complexity 1:30:40 - Nature review process 1:51:34 - Time and free will 1:57:59 - Communication with aliens 2:19:57 - Cellular automata 2:24:26 - AGI 2:41:15 - Nuclear weapons 2:47:00 - Chem Machina 2:59:54 - GPT for electron density 3:09:24 - God