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Alphabet is launching a company that uses AI for drug discovery

Having two divisions dedicated to similar tasks seems odd. Perhaps one will be loaded with all the risk, while the other searches for new illnesses to treat with all the marvellous new drugs?

I find myself these days falling back more and more on the thought: ‘Thank god for the Long Descent! It will sweep away all these Faustian techie-techie lunacies. Roll on!’