In seriousness, though, I'm always surprised at how many people assume that computational medicine (or combinatorial chemistry) has been beneficial, when it's in fact the other way around. We did way better in the 50's injecting random botanicals into micehttps://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2012/03/08/erooms_law …
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The cases where technological advances have led to an exponential *decrease* in outcomes are not common, but are supremely fascinating and should probably be something we investigate more deeply before automating the rest of the world. I suggest we study it with machine learning!
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I also remember the predictions from 20 years ago that all information would now be encoded in RDF tuples, the previous technology that was supposed to organize all human knowledge. And yet I know of some web pages that aren't even valid XML!
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"all science is either physics or stamp collecting", but said forcefully by a librarian
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Hello Maciej, I want to buy some Pinboard stonks
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Just wait and Pinboard will eventually buy you.
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in the sense of " prosthetic knowledge ", probably
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what is knowledge but the bookmarking of reality?
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Elsevier will corner the market with its vast collection of dead links presented as references in papers.
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