Was quite unproductive. It’s an environment issue! Staying at home, not doing anything, is self compounding. Superstimuli grabbing me.s
Amazing Claude talk
Earth bottlenecks beyond sun boiling: Atmosphere loss (very long), core cooling (~4 By).
Solar wind strips atmospheres. Planet rotation poles typically perpendicular to orbital plane. Uranus is sideways and bizzare magnetic field.
Intelligent life at 80% of Earth’s habitable time before boiling. 1 By longer wouldn’t cut it.
Eukaryotes arose from unlikely endosymbiosis event (Lane/Martin). Energy advantage from mitochondria providing membranes with local DNA control. Prokaryotes can’t have local DNA copies to manage membranes.
If eukaryogenesis is the bottleneck, expect microbial life everywhere but complex life rare. Life started on Earth immediately, took 2+ billion years for complexity, fits.
Evolution has some theoretical limits (no free lunch theorem) and many (for now only empirical) walls like body plans locked since Cambrian and genetic code frozen.
We’re probably early (Filter passed + Hanson’s grabby aliens model). Von Neumann probes unseen.
LLMs are so good and motivating for self-research, it’s crazy. Just wanted to go deeper.
Want to present (to my friends or city) about the fermi paradox, start a series of cafes!