On the Salient Limitations of the Methods of Assembly Theory and their Classification of Molecular Biosignatures · HackerPapers discussions

On the Salient Limitations of the Methods of Assembly Theory and their Classification of Molecular Biosignatures — mentioned by JIsalazar

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 03:38:31 GMT

Please, be mindful of the criticisms to Assembly Theory too: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00901, https://hectorzenil.medium.com/the-8-fallacies-of-assembly-t..., https://primordialscoop.org/2023/03/24/assembly-theory-and-a...

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On the Salient Limitations of the Methods of Assembly Theory and their Classification of Molecular Biosignatures — mentioned by goodmachine

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:59:44 GMT

Yes. But it seems perhaps they haven't even done those things correctly. The project seems to have a slight case of Wolframesque overreach https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00901 The 8 Fallacies of Assembly Theory https://hectorzenil.medium.com/test-8f0be54817c4

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On the Salient Limitations of the Methods of Assembly Theory and their Classification of Molecular Biosignatures — mentioned by cowboysauce

Sat, 06 May 2023 00:01:06 GMT

> https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00901 Granted, I'm not very familiar with the math behind things like compression and I skimmed a few sections, but this seems to be a criticism of the authors' methods and not the general idea. They show that there are other ways to produce these quantifications of complexity that are better than what's in the original paper. But these also show that certain biological materials score substantially higher than the abiotic samples. Some of the criticisms also seem to be nit-picking, mainly the mention of beer scoring very high on these measures, as if it's a…

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On the Salient Limitations of the Methods of Assembly Theory and their Classification of Molecular Biosignatures — mentioned by goodmachine

Fri, 05 May 2023 21:22:58 GMT

Fascinating stuff. However: annihilating critique here "What they have proposed is a limited special case of an RLE-Huffman coding algorithm, which means their paper introduces a simpler version of what was already considered one of the simplest coding algorithms in computer science." The 8 Fallacies of Assembly Theory https://hectorzenil.medium.com/test-8f0be54817c4 And https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00901

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