I don’t think that lack of intelligence is the bottleneck. It might be in some places, but categorically, across the board, our bottlenecks are much more pragmatic and mundane.

Consider another devastating disease: tuberculosis. It’s largely eradicated in the 1st world but is still a major cause of death basically everywhere else. We know how to treat it, lack of knowledge isn’t the bottleneck. I’d say effectively we do not have a cure for TB because we have not made that cure accessible to enough humans.

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alex43578 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s a weird way to frame it. It’s like saying we don’t know how to fly because everyone doesn’t own a personal plane.

We have treatments (cures) for TB: antibiotics. Even XDR-TB.

What we don’t have is a cure for most types of cancer.

	▲	catlifeonmars 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Flying is a bad example because airlines are a thing and make flying relatively accessible. I get your point, but I don’t think it really matters. If a cure for most (or all) cancers is known but it’s not accessible to most people then it is effectively nonexistent. E.g it will be like TB. > We have treatments (cures) for TB TB is still one of the top 10 causes of death globally.