[ok_dad]

Alphafold: there are lots of caveats, from my limited understanding so far the “thing“ it does isn’t a limiting factor for speeding up drug development.

Video cards: I don’t know much about them, it seems impressive but I’m not sold it’s the future of gaming yet; also they’re expensive as Fuck

I am not saying this stuff will never be useful, but we’re at the peak of the hype cycle today, and I expect many, many of the supposed breakthroughs turn out to be a dead end or harder to make reliable than expected. Or, way more expensive than financially viable for that problem.

I hope I’m wrong, tech wise, because it would be amazing to reduce the needed human work output, but also I’m not sold that our society can survive if AI takes over jobs, so that’s another reason that I’m bullish.