Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by cheapcheerful on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:17AM
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Just to play devils avocado, Dario isn't Musk. He's got a doctorate in biophysics from Princeton, and postdoc scholar from Stanford Medicine. Curing disease seems to be why he got into AI, when his father became ill but died just a few years before his illness became easily curable.
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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by krapp on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:19AM
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The devil has enough advocates in Silicon Valley, thank you.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by hybrid_study on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:23AM
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but not enough avocados
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by asdfologist on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:21AM
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People also bashed Dario for predicting that 90% of coding would be automated.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by Arodex on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:22AM
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New: Dario claims AI will allow women to have babies in only 1 month.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by Arodex on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:21AM
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So basically his neuroses drive him but also cloud his judgement.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by bamboozled on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:39AM
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Similar story to Ray Kurzweil. Personally feel sorry for these guys losses and maybe they will succeed...
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by gessha on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:43AM
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Perfect case for ditching cloud judgements for self-hosted judgements.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by busssard on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:24AM
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well he has an IPO, so he is getting closer to Musk.
If you have to drive share prices, you better make outlandish claims
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by whynotmaybe on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:24AM
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And Richard Jordan Gatling that invented the gatling gun was a doctor of medicine and invented the gun to reduce exposure of soldiers to diseases.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by whimsicalism on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:48AM
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well he was right
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by fourside on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:25AM
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I’m going to go with the mass of subject matter experts saying this is impossible vs the CEO of a company that’s pitching you in his IPO.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by rvz on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:33AM
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Just stop.
This appeal to authority bullshit on a person that has a financial incentive to sell you something needs to completely stop.
The same happened with doctors over 100 years ago who were peddling the benefits of Radon to cure diseases.
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by datsci_est_2015 on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:52AM
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Praying for a future where the biggest outcome of AI adoption is the death of the Great Man Theory.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by dev1ycan on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:34AM
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As someone whose mom got recently diagnosed with barret's, whose dad already died from pancreatic cancer, whose grandfather got alzheimer's, whose grandma died from diabetes/cancer complication, I understand the psychosis that this can create, it's like you're living on a sand clock.
Diseases are horrible, I am against people living forever, because we are taking the world away from the next generation, but I also am against people dying in unpredictable, sad ways, I wish everyone could die at peace in their bed next to their loved ones (if they were good in life) rather than through diseases or conditions.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by dig1 on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:36AM
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Having prestigious degrees doesn't mean your ideas make sense or that you're rational. Luc Montagnier, a Nobel laureate who co-discovered HIV, strongly believed in homeopathy and DNA teleportation, which the scientific community widely regarded as pseudoscience.