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This article is wrapped in a veneer of reasonableness, but it's actually doing the same concern trolling techniques that antivaxers use to introduce their extremism and get people in the pipeline under the guise of just having reasonable concerns and thinking medicine is moving too fast.
This isn't some sort of measured approach, it's arguing that we should sacrifice people on the altar of slowing technological progress, and acting superior about it.
It's no different from RFK Jr's crusade against mRNA research guaranteeing needless and preventable cancer deaths.
People have managed to negatively polarize me against AI skepticism because they keep making monstrous arguments about how it's good, actually, if people die of preventable causes because they don't like the technology that's making those deaths preventable. It's no different from antivaxers.
You're not the good guys in this scenario, you're the cranks making tiktoks about how sunscreen causes cancer and vaccines give you autism and seed oils give you turbocancer but all meat diets won't clog your arteries.
This is insane. There are “good case” usages for AI. Especially in medicine (research and imaging in particular). Was just reading this am about the use of AI in detecting a hard to detect kind of breast cancer. AI/machine learning has lots of good applications.
she’s joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer
My mom died of cancer last year
Fuck these anti-AI people
Kathryn Brightbill ✒️
Kathryn Brightbill ✒️
Kathryn Brightbill ✒️
Ok, but as someone else who could directly benefit if AI cured cancer, I'd like people like this to shut the fuck up. People already decided I should be more likely to die in hurricanes if the alternative is better forecasting via AI, and now we're getting messaging that people should die of cancer.
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because - fun fact - you are actually killing a lot more people than that if your preferred policy is brought about and it meaningfully impedes cancer research.
i see no reflection about that as a serious tradeoff that should be taken extremely seriously, only claiming moral authority as a patient
if you're scared of things that haven't happened yet and you think your preferred solution would in any way, even marginally, impede cancer research, you should fucking agonize about that as if you're killing a million people.
