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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by sejje on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:35AM (#50484117)
> he does not say cancer, Alzheimers and mental illness will be cured in 10 years, but that they will become 'relics of the past'.

Doesn't everyone believe that, on some timeline, we will cure all of these things? Like if I said within a million years, you'd be hard-pressed to find a serious doubter.

Dario just thinks he's going to build ASI and ASI will solve them more-or-less instantly. I believe an ASI would do that, as well.

So by my logic, naysayers really just don't think we're about to build ASI. Dario does. I figure he has a better perspective. But we're not arguing about solving all of that stuff, we're arguing about whether ASI can do it, and whether we're on the cusp of ASI

Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by ForHackernews on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:11AM (#50485619)
Humanity may well be extinct a million years hence. The average mammalian species appears to last ~1-2 million years.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by sejje on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:00PM (#50490535)
The average mammalian species is also probably what, a mouse?