In part, sure. From drug discovery to crop yields to education, compute and AI have material benefits. It's kind of shocking that anyone could doubt this. Evid

In part, sure. From drug discovery to crop yields to education, compute and AI have material benefits. It's kind of shocking that anyone could doubt this. Evidence: * https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09809 https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09809 * https://phys.org/news/2016-12-mobile-money-access-percent-kenyan.html https://phys.org/news/2016-12-mobile-money-access-percent-ke... * https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3893351 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3893351 This being HN, I hasten to add they also have massive downsides, we're all doomed, nobody programs the right way anymore, those poor people just think compute & AI are improving their lives, etc, etc.