Biology community's real gripe with AI hype: baseless 5-year cure timelines, say critics
ATinyGreenCell · x · 2026-11-12
ATinyGreenCell argues the biology community's anger at AI marketers stems mostly from baseless timelines: AI can help find cures, but biology has no first principles — you have to generate the data first, so a 5-year cure timeline is fantasy.
In the follow-up thread, shaemcl adds that most reasonable AI people agree data must be generated first, meaning the cure-disease thesis depends on solving robotics and massively scaling autonomous labs; he agrees timelines are wrong and physics may limit radical lifespan extension, but argues the case deserves a stronger steelman.
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