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So Peter Thiel is an idiot. Biology especially human biology is a lot harder simply because experiments have bigger ethical issues. Even if you have desperate
by croes 2y ago
So Peter Thiel is an idiot.
Biology especially human biology is a lot harder simply because experiments have bigger ethical issues.
Even if you have desperate cancer patients there are limits how and what you can test.
And we have others fields where all these brilliant people according to him are working and all the money goes and the problems are also not solved.
- biophysboy 2y agoEvery one of Peter Thiel's opinions is a dark provocative secret. He's very predictable
- ackbar03 2y agoI was kind of surprised he was gay
- Sanzig 2y agoIt's not just ethics. Biology is just plain complicated. It's a science which tries to reverse engineer the results of billions of years of natural selection. A human body belonging to a lucky person might live the better part of a century, all the time which it grows, heals itself when injured, processes food into new resources, hosts an example of the best known thinking machine in the world (the human brain), and literally has the machinery to produce one or more additional human beings. These are capabilities which are incredibly difficult to replicate artificially, so much so that producing a robot that could do even half of these things remains firmly in the realm of science fiction. And it wasn't designed, it was evolved, so it's about the worst mess of spaghetti code you could imagine. It's simply a hard problem.
- croes 2y agoBut ethics is the reason it's harder to experiment on a complicated matter. In physics you can totally shatter your test object to get to the inner functions. You can't do that with living creatures especially humans.