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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by huntertwo on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:43AM (#50484244)
I don’t see how cancer is not solvable by AI - if you can cheaply detect the genetic defects that are causing the cancer in any patient, and you can cheaply and rapidly generate and validate retroviruses, you can effectively treat any cancer.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by hoppp on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:45AM (#50484275)
Not all cancer is caused by genetic defects that can be detected ahead of time.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by hansvm on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:48AM (#50484320)
How cheaply? How accurately? Your proposed solution puts a lot of strain on the body, so even if it fixed cancer you wouldn't want to do it preemptively every day for example, likely shortening lifespan substantially despite cause of death not being cancer any more. It's a scheme that also relies on detecting cancer quite early (else the bulk of a tumor can easily be unchanged from that intervention), so you'd expect quite a lot of those false positive scenarios. Not to mention "cheaply detect genetic defects" sounds like a pipe dream for now with or without AI (assuming you're referring to single-cell mutations, since any other interpretation just doesn't address enough root causes).
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by huntertwo on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:33PM (#50486801)
I guess I fell for the AI psychosis too