[danso]

So the question you should be asking is...if everyone agrees that cheap renewable energy and curing diseases is a good thing, why haven't we done it yet? I guess if you're cynical, you'd argue, because no one can make a profit from it (uh...right).

However, if you see it as a pragmatic problem, then maybe the answer to why not? is because we need better ways to process information -- and this kind of unsupervised machine learning is critical to doing that.

[samstave]

Yes, know, i just found the phrase funny.

[icefox]

Why is curing all diseases a good thing?

[baddox]

Because, unless you're using a specially crafted definition of the term, diseases are all bad.

[MacsHeadroom]

Is being unhealthy good? Do you enjoy being ill?

[aviraldg]

I've given some thought to this, and the answer is it might be. Consider a future where we've managed to eliminate all diseases. By then our natural resistance to disease might have atrophied to a point where we will absolutely be unprepared to deal with new diseases (biologically), before we've managed to develop a cure for them.