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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

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The existing literature written in English on this story tends to attribute Tu Youyou’s achievements to a solo discovery, an understandable consequence of Tu receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015. Discovery During the Vietnam War, malaria was a major health concern for soldiers. Photo taken in 1951.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

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Because one of the consequences of the phenomenon of computational irreducibility is that there’ll always be more computations to do—that can’t in the end be reduced by any finite amount of automation, discovery or invention. This equivalence has many consequences. There are a great many consequences of computational irreducibility.

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