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Moonshots are concerning until you consider the alternative.

AI is the one and only possibility for saving millions (likely billions) of lives from “old age”, cancers, Alzheimer’s, ALS… you name it.

It’s a big bet. The alternative is we all die anyway: sadly after a gradual decline at best or horribly after long undignified suffering at worst.

I’ll take the economic risk.

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> AI is the one and only possibility for saving millions (likely billions) of lives from “old age”, cancers, Alzheimer’s, ALS… you name it.

Says you and everyone else with a financial incentive to trick people into believing this.

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My financial incentive is surviving the next couple decades healthy enough to keep doing things

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If those billions were poured in research it could bring results too.

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Medical progress basically stopped toward the end of the 20th century.

We can now treat breast cancer and leukemia? What a low bar.

We’ve got sci-fi cellphones and 1980s medicine.