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> His work is a net negative for the world.

Bit early for this very Hacker News type blurt.

Eg: Personalized medicine, predictive medicine, protein folding, climate modelling, smart grids, fraud detection, disaster response, food production modelling, etc.

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Many of those are unfulfilled promises of the type that have been around for 30 or 40 years at least. And climate modelling: what's the point? You can't predict climate change from history. That's the whole point of the research.

So then wait until those promises have been fulfilled, as has so often been the case in Nobel prizes. Remember Higgs?

But the negative effects have been clear. Might just as well give the Nobel Peace Prize to Zuckerberg.

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