Ugh. We've heard all of this before for decades. Yes, progress is being rapidly made on understanding biological processes, but with as many steps back as forwa

Ugh. We've heard all of this before for decades. Yes, progress is being rapidly made on understanding biological processes, but with as many steps back as forward, as we realize there are entirely new categories of things that we didn't even know we don't know. The hubris on display here is typical of tech VCs, who eventually believe their own hype. If it's hard for humans to comprehend, just rub some machine learning on it... ignore that we're finally realizing that machine learning's limitations are significant, but that we can only discover how wrong they can be on results that humans can double-check. And the naive application of software engineering buzzwords like "modular" and "iterative" to drug development and biological processes is seriously dangerous. You don't want to move fast and break things when we're talking about human health and genetics. This article is full of misleading claims and overstatements of reality. It's easy to make things sound great when you entirely ignore the reality of existing and potential technology, but of course I don't expect anything different from these folks.