alt Hacker NewsIt's interesting that there are almost no comments on this. This feels like some of the most exciting and impactful fields of the next years. I worked with a cracked researcher that was generating molecules a couple of years ago. She spent most of her time fighting cuda bugs and trying installing packages. I wonder if the ecosystem matured right now. There are people studying cells to see what enters and what exits and engineer how to stop, for example, resources feeding a bad cell. Possibilities feel endless. I am a little worried about side effects, since bio is way more chaotic than silicon, but hopefully AI will help with that level of chaos too.
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I'm sure people will take this the wrong way, but a lot of the people who are on HN and who orbit technology circles in SF are really just not actually intellectually curious people.
They might like to think they are, they might try to pretend they are, but when pushed they're simply not.
Look at all of the groupthink that is perpetuated nonstop while they also proclaim they're creating, investing in, etc. so many unique ideas. Yet year after year it's the same thing in a different color.
What they actually are is interested in money and prestige. So give it a little time and they'll learn enough about biology to try and get some validation from their peers with comments. If money actually pours into bio that is.
Quite frankly, most people on HN are software devs with a wider interest in the world. HN’ers usually-ish comment when they have something insightful to sat, even if the insight is just a humble one.
But I dare to guess that most HN’ers did high school bio and that’s it, so it’s harder to even give a small thoughtful comment on it, so they refrain.
Case in point, I wouldn’t have commented either. But I feel at home here and notice some behavioral patterns. And compared to other fellow devs, I generally am more tuned to tune in on behavioral patterns because of having studied psychology.
But that’s just my take.
This was posted on a Saturday night (in the US). A story posted at lunch time on a Tuesday is going to get 100x or maybe 10,000x more views than a story posted on a Saturday night.
It's not that HN readers lack intellectual curiosity or have some character flaw or narrow worldview, it's just that few people are reading and commenting between the late hours of Saturday and early morning of Sunday. It's 6 am Sunday in California as I post this.