Gary Marcus

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Score 83
2/13/2025, 7:07:39 PM
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Daniel
@d_feldman
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@GaryMarcus Agree on the cars and the GPT-5

But biotech has lead to some truly incredible achievements, including the COVID vaccine and hundreds of other cures for deadly diseases

Sure, the failure rate is very high, but the successes are world-changing
Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus
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Wait! 🤯

Do you mean to tell me that a bunch of massively hyped biotech companies haven’t remotely returned on their investments, that the vast majority of people in the world still can’t hail rides in (or buy) genuinely driverless cars, and that GPT-5 still hasn’t arrived,…
Cathy Tie
@CathyTie
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We have all been lied to. We are not any closer to having genomics truly impact our lives as we were led to believe. Nobel Laureates and scientists (e.g. George Church, Feng Zhang, Jennifer Doudna) linked to the discovery of CRISPR went on to raise $6B+ USD for their companies;…

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