alt Hacker NewsRight, the key being a fast feedback loop. I have full confidence that the same LLMs that can do these crazy math proofs could also do crazy biology, even cancer research, but they simply don’t have the cycle time low enough because they require actual physical experiments, often on living things, often over long time horizons. Even if you perfectly automated a lab, made thousands of them, you’d still be unable to match the speed of iteration that one gets with pure math and computing problems.
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Plus you'd kill a lot of people.
"You're absolutely right, that drug was lethal and that's on me. I'll add a note to check human toxicity for all compounds in the future. To verify the safe dosage, I'll administer a high dose and then check smaller doses until the patient survives — not guesswork, grounded, load-bearing experiments."
What gives you full confidence? The human body/biology has basically nothing to do with math or writing code. This doesnt translate in any way. There isnt a single biotech expert on earth that agrees with you.