Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100
by zbyte64 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @06:27PM
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Just from a data volume perspective cancer and atomic bombs are magnitudes apart. Throw in the fact that cancer evolves and understanding those mutations requires unraveling millions of years of evolution and you've got a doozy.
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Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100
by iaw on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:31PM
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I strongly believe that our analytic capabilities (as a species) have grown by orders of magnitude since we built the bomb.
My entire point was that the bomb wasn't a given in it's day (in spite of what the retrospective belief seems to be), just because something is out of our grasp now doesn't mean we won't reach it if we try.
Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100
by 1_2__3 on Thursday September 22, 2016 @01:52AM
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Reading your comments it really seems like smart and knowledgeable people are trying to make substantive arguments replies and you're answering with woo-woo. You should probably listen more. I've learned a lot from reading them.