| ▲ | danaris 9 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
Ah, yes: "well, we can't cure cancer or autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases, but I'm willing to invest basically all my money into a thing that's...trained on the things we know how to do already, and isn't actually very good at doing any of them." ...Meanwhile, we are developing techniques to yes, cure some kinds of cancer, as in every time they check back it's completely gone, without harming healthy tissue. We are developing "anti-vaccines" for autoimmune diseases, that can teach our bodies to stop attacking themselves. We are learning where some of the origins of the neurodegenerative diseases are, in ways that makes treating them much more feasible. So you're 100% wrong about the things we can't do, and your confidence in what "AI" can do is ludicrously unfounded. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | unsupp0rted 9 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Every doctor and researcher in the world is trained on things we already know how to do already. I’m not claiming we haven’t made a dent. I’m claiming I’m in roughly as much danger from these things right now as any human ever has been: middling results. If we can speed up the cures by even 1%, that’s cumulatively billions of hours of human life saved by the time we’re done. | |||||||||||||||||
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