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Anthropic sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program

5 pointsby 52m agoreuters.com
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48m agoHN ↗

I get so annoyed that the allopathic approach te medicine seems to be the only thing on the mind of AI labs. Like somehow all ailments just need the right drug, and it's all good. 80% of illness comes from bad lifestyle, and yet the majority is invested in the remaining 20%.

36m agoHN ↗

But this is about research and we hardly need more cutting edge research into healthy lifestyle. The things that are not known are minutia which barely matters at population level, especially when most of the population isn't even following the basics.

40m agoHN ↗

How exactly does this square with slowing down at the frontier?