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OUTLINE:
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

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