>This technology is going to drive some incredible discoveries in all of STEM.
We could do without them.
Tell that to the family of someone who dies a year before one of those discoveries that would have saved their life...
I guess you don't know anyone who has cancer.
We could probably do without computers too, but that would be idiotic because they speed everything up. There's a good chance that the next pandemic is swatted down by LLM-powered vaccine development much faster than COVID-19 was.
"We could do without them." is not a great take when it comes to people dying prematurely.
In fact, I would bet that this particular technology will lead to climate change solutions eventually. If nothing else, it will drive an energy revolution in either nuclear or solar power. Probably too late to solve the AMOC collapse, but mitigation is still in play through science.
Maybe you're sitting pretty right now, but try posting this from your deathbed, or that of your kid.
The lack of compassion that people display here is shocking to me.
"Don't automate science, because there are junior scientists could be denied the thrill of specific discoveries."
Cancer patients are not accessories to anyone's self-actualization.