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Comment by serioussecurity

It's not just RL.

Many of the harnesses used to search for solutions rely on quick/cheap correctness checks to discard incorrect hypotheses. With something like biology, you might need to run a wet lab experiment to reject an idea. This can add days per iteration, slowing progress down by a factor of 100 or more.

The sad reality is that many computational approximations for biological phenomenon are relatively weak and lack the predictive power we need.

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