Assembly Theory is Cool, but it doesn't quite do what its inventors say it does

http only site, also very editorial/opinion style writing.

https://archive.ph/NtXft

> [Assembly Theory] is a neat and simple model for the combinatorial generation of innovation in rule-based abstract "worlds" of recombining objects. It is a model of how evolution (or other higher-level processes) can lead to complexification.

Assembly Theory description links:

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9 (original paper)

- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03061-y ("very well written news & views article (with a terrible clickbaity title)")