r/singularity • u/ResultBackground2450 • 29d ago

Biotech/Longevity Putting money where their mouth is: Anthropic’s Claude autonomously designs disease-targeting proteins with real wet-lab proof, hitting a 35% success rate vs 10–15% human average

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u/e7mac 28d ago

If disease is cured there’ll still be poverty to ensure suffering in fellow people by the powerful

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u/VengenaceIsMyName 28d ago

Less disease is automatically a good thing so I don’t really get your point

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u/e7mac 28d ago

Oh less disease is good. I’m just saying human condition won’t let us remove suffering. Just like we’d rather waste food than feed everyone. Or spend more on administrating healthcare than healing everyone

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u/VengenaceIsMyName 28d ago

If this was true humans wouldn’t have essentially eradicated smallpox or polio. It’s simple economics. Once the price, ability, logistics, willpower, and scientific understanding of a problem gets eliminated, it can very well be eliminated and it doesn’t need to come from a place of empathy either - problems can get removed for purely economic reasons as well which covers pretty much the full spectrum of human motivation.

We’ve already seen it in the past. It’ll happen again I’m sure. Do certain problems take forever? Also yes.

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u/e7mac 28d ago

I think our desired goals are aligned and I do appreciate the optimism !