Re:Silicon Valley Promises AI Will Cure Disease. Drugmaker C...
by tomcatfish on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:22AM
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Yes, and this is the same thing the comment I was reply to did. POSIWID is a bad phrase to bandy about in exactly this low-resolution way. If you want to make a more complicated argument, feel free, but we don't have rules for logic like "A & A->B ==> C if I don't feel like explaining".
You have to go through and explain the thing by making a good argument, or else you're just adding noise to the conversation.
Let's focus on one of the examples he gives:
> [POSIWID implies that] The purpose of the New York bus system is to emit four billion pounds of carbon dioxide [and this is obviously absurd]
But that's not what the bus system does, is it? That's only one thing it does and it's the least purposeful thing it does, as if you chose that one on purpose.
I'd sooner think the purpose of the NYC bus system is to move money from government coffers to oil barons, or to placate left-wing protestors, or to satisfy a sustainability checklist item, or to increase the employment rate in NYC than to think the CO2 is the point.