Andrej Karpathy mentioned Life Ascending by Nick Lane 3 times

I used to think that the origin of life was this magical rare event. But then you read books like, for example, Nick Lane, "The Vital Question", "Life Ascending", et cetera. And he really gets in, he really makes you believe that this is not that rare. [...] I do feel like the story in these books, like Nick Lane's books and so on, sort of makes sense and it makes sense how life arose on earth uniquely. And yeah, I don't need to reach for more exotic explanations right now.

— Andrej Karpathy

I think in biology as an example, "The Vital Question" is a good one. Anything by Nick Lane really, "Life Ascending" I would say is a bit more potentially representative as like a summary of a lot of the things he's been talking about.

— Andrej Karpathy

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— Andrej Karpathy

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