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Added 2024-12-26 15:00:06 +0000 UTCLSD-fiend, surfer, maverick — Kary Mullis might be the weirdest person ever to win the Nobel Prize.
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Just joined the Patreon because of this video, I love the easy to understand format and I'd love to see more deep dives into specific areas of science like this
Warix
2025-01-01 15:00:36 +0000 UTCReally, Really interesting!!! The smallest of nits, though: near the end, you say that PCR save millions of lives. I think that is a stretch. PCR identified who had COVID-19 and who didn't. The identification alone didn't save lives per se...
Kate Proctor
2024-12-30 20:27:26 +0000 UTCHere's the thing, they aren't experts (IMO). They are pattern matchers with what came before. There have been disastrous consequences of people thinking that they have discovered the true patterns of XYZ and building a model to generalize their data set, only to find that what it actually did was reproduce the pattern that they had previously created themselves. Whoops.
chromicacid
2024-12-27 03:54:02 +0000 UTCI am hopeful there will still be a job market for human experts, whatever the business. People who don’t want to become an expert in something will have a hard time.
Aaron Disario
2024-12-26 20:22:03 +0000 UTCOn that last point, machines taking our jobs will free us only if we aren't fired following the automation. Kary was bored, but also had time and finances to explore during that boredom, and that's the important combo. It's notable that Kary wasn't fired following the automation of the production of primers. He still had a job, still got paid, and could spend time investigating. I am not confident that most employers today would be so generous, and as a result most people who are replaced by machines have to start spending their mental and physical energy simply trying to get food, water, and shelter. That is a bad place for innovation, and also a very productive ground for retribution against the technology that their employer used to justify firing them. Still, good history lesson.
chromicacid
2024-12-26 18:57:37 +0000 UTC
