I’ve posted this several times on HN but I’ll post it again. I once had the opportunity to interview a renowned cancer doctor and researcher at MD Anderson hos

I’ve posted this several times on HN but I’ll post it again. I once had the opportunity to interview a renowned cancer doctor and researcher at MD Anderson hospital. He told me that we would never again see the kinds of advances we saw in the early days (70’s and 80’s) of cancer research because those days were the Wild West. He basically said they did many reckless things, but that’s how they stumbled upon treatments such as the protocol for using steroids with chemo for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Ok, so high risk experimentation lead to exaptation and innovation. Not sure I want to see that happen with self driving cars but the other part of me knows that’s how complex systems “evolve”.