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Re:Silicon Valley Promises AI Will Cure Disease. Drugmaker C... by tehjoker on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:28PM (#50417490)
> It won't cure people with stage 5 turbo-cancer a.k.a the walking dead,

Definitely spoken like someone who knows real cancer patients and cares about cures and not like someone religiously obsessed with transhumanism.

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Re:Silicon Valley Promises AI Will Cure Disease. Drugmaker C... by kanzure on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:19PM (#50418011)
Huh? I never said my own goal was curing cancer. There are many other people working on cancer. However, I actually do think we can get lower cancer rates via germline genetic engineering, based on the available evidence so far, but again cancer isn't my focus.
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