Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous medical claims

Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by SpicyLemonZest on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:52AM (#50484405)

Coding is his area of expertise, his claims there are inherently on much stronger grounds.

I don't think it's impossible that he's right. I'm ultimately buying Anthropic stock regardless of this discussion. But I would not take it particularly seriously if the CEO of Moderna took a break from their amazing work applying mRNA vaccines to diseases, and told the world that soon mRNA will solve climate change.

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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by user43928 on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:57AM (#50484485)

I think few know that Amodei was a biologist who has been researching cancer biomarkers at Stanford.

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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by jackb4040 on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:07AM (#50484633)

I dont think anything qualifies you to claim you've invented a god-technology that will cure all diseases with no added labor costs - something that has never happened before. But even if I did, that qualification wouldn't be part of an undergraduate biology education.

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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by SpicyLemonZest on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:07AM (#50484638)

I indeed did not know that, but I don't think it quite contradicts my point either. Many of the perspectives Marcus quotes are consistent with the idea that Claude might be amazing at finding cancer biomarkers.

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