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If you can discover a drug faster and that drug is as useful as dirt does it matter? This isn't my field but I could grab a bunch of random jars off a shelf an
by lesuorac 4y ago
If you can discover a drug faster and that drug is as useful as dirt does it matter?
This isn't my field but I could grab a bunch of random jars off a shelf and pour them into capsules. No matter how fast I can do this won't improve medical outcomes for patients.
- dekhn 4y agoyou just described how modern high content screening, which has been one of the most useful techniques for finding drug leads, works. Since lead-finding is a bottleneck in the drug discovery process, it has been highly effective because it can measure things that are not currently computationally accessible.
- freejazz 4y agois a bottleneck != is THE bottleneck
- dekhn 4y agoIt's the first bottleneck. Generally, if you can't pass the first bottleneck, all the remaining bottlenecks don't matter.
- lesuorac 4y agoI don't follow. Wasn't your claim that the AI process hasn't been shown to generate a useful drug [1]? [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33720915 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33720915