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fasterikyesterday at 7:34 PM1 replyview on HN

Agreed that software isn't going to fix our institutions. But we need 0 new software? AlphaFold won its creators a Nobel prize in chemistry and solved a research problem that feeds into every area of biology, medical research, and drug discovery. We still have an untold number of unsolved problems related to human health, food production, energy production, infrastructure, transportation, education... The list is practically infinite.


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barrenkoyesterday at 8:17 PM

Agree for stuff like alphafold, for the likes of education, imho, it's been solved for at least a couple of centuries.

Textbook and blackboard > ipad.

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