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1. Marha01 · 1790340695 · focus · HN ↗

   It’s sad to think that there are kids out there with cancer that could be saved by AI-enabled advancements and you are busy sandbagging it because of your own personal issues.

   1. meredithbloom · 1790343540 · focus · HN ↗

      We had machine learning solving medical problems way before trillion-dollar word-vomiting neural networks. What's sad is that the latter is now getting all the funding.

      1. Marha01 · 1790355561 · focus · HN ↗

         The only way to really solve cancer, as well as all other diseases, is general superintelligence running on massive supercomputers. Humans are too dumb to accomplish it anytime soon, even with the help of narrow medical ML.

         1. EasyMark · 1790565988 · focus · HN ↗

            and why would a superintelligence (or the trillionaires controlling it) want to cure cancer for the populace rather than just the ruling elite? I just don't think they are making altruism a core feature in the "conscience" of the upcoming superintelligence if the singularity (exponential recursive self-improvement) happens.
   2. 0c3ca83 · 1790350364 · focus · HN ↗

      I'd be in favor of pulling funding from LLMs and putting it into cancer research; think of all the kids that could be saved by redirecting funding from building data centers for coding bots and instead sending it to medical research.
   3. reducesuffering · 1790360210 · focus · HN ↗

      While unfortunate, these are not personal issues. By promoting AGI capability progress, you risk the lives of billions of all of us.

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