Biology has its own bitter lesson, argues Baym: raw intelligence hasn't cracked life yet
zakkohane · x · 2026-11-14
Biologist Roby Baym proposes that "biology has its own bitter lesson": for decades physicists and mathematicians believed they could solve biology by bringing a bit more of their own intelligence to it. They haven't yet — though they've made major advances. Reposter zakkohane is excited to watch these competing bitter lessons fight it out: brute-force compute/search over human priors versus domain-expert intuition.
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