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Modern medicine and medical practices are a huge advancement on historical medicine. They save countless lives. But almost all medicine comes with side effects
by edanm 2y ago
Modern medicine and medical practices are a huge advancement on historical medicine. They save countless lives.
But almost all medicine comes with side effects.
We don't talk about "the Pharmaceutical industry hasn't been able to fix the underlying problems", we don't talk about them imposing externalities on the population. Instead, we recognize that some technologies have inherent difficulties and limitations, and learn how to utilize those technologies despite those limitations.
It's too early to know the exact limitations of LLMs. Will they always suffer from hallucinations? Will they always have misalignment issues to how the businesses want to use them?
Perhaps.
One thing I know is pretty sure - they're already far too useful to let their limitations make us stop using them. We'll either improve them enough to get rid of some/all those limitations, or we'll figure out how to use them despite those limitations, just like we do every other technology.
- Animats 2y ago> But almost all medicine comes with side effects. Which is why clinical testing of drugs is such a long process. Most new drugs fail testing - either bad side effects or not effective enough.