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I still hate those articles title with all my heart. Is there a way to ban lies about cancer vaccines, fusion reactors, and infinite battery storage ? Sure, o

I still hate those articles title with all my heart. Is there a way to ban lies about cancer vaccines, fusion reactors, and infinite battery storage ? Sure, okay, people are working on that, and they're making small incremental improvements and that's good for them ; and unfortunately they need to advertise to secure more funding for the later incremental stage of their research. I understand that. But please stop with the nonsensical "cancer vaccine", "miracle cancer treatment", "cancer breakthrough" etc... This is an insult to everyone who lost a loved one to cancer. Cause I'll be _really_ happy when a _real_ cure happens (as in, when anyone can go the their doctor, for real, and get a real "cure", and they have no cancer after that, and it's a simple as getting a cure for, well, you know, the diseases that we "cure", and that are definitely not cancer ?) But this is not today. Today we "deal" with cancer, we "spare" people some time, we squash it a bit and maybe save a couple of years if you have the "lucky" kind of cancer - and that's great, and let's continue doing that. But enough with the headlines. Play it like Apple, please. Tell me about it when I can buy it.

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hughw 1y ago
But we know how to read critically, don't we? When I read it, I searched for and noticed "mice" and "proof of concept" in the text, and understood the limited claims they're making. I'm glad to learn about this incremental progress because cancer immunotherapy seems a promising avenue.
- phtrivier 1y ago
  Our ability to "read critically" is not incompatible with the expectation that other people will "write honestly". If it's incremental and a promising lead and it works only in mice, there are an infinite number of titles that are closer to the truth than "universal cancer vaccine". Otherwise, I'm going to start posting things about that "AGI" that I was able to train, and that can think () !!! Trust me, it's in Rust !! () : at the same level as a single cell organism in a simulated environment
amelius 1y ago
> Tell me about it when I can buy it. Sorry if this comes across as snarky but perhaps you should not read posts on a hacker forum, and instead limit yourself to reading advertisements?
- pasttense01 1y ago
  All we want is accurate titles, not clickbait ones.

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hughw 1y ago

But we know how to read critically, don't we? When I read it, I searched for and noticed "mice" and "proof of concept" in the text, and understood the limited claims they're making. I'm glad to learn about this incremental progress because cancer immunotherapy seems a promising avenue.

phtrivier 1y ago
Our ability to "read critically" is not incompatible with the expectation that other people will "write honestly". If it's incremental and a promising lead and it works only in mice, there are an infinite number of titles that are closer to the truth than "universal cancer vaccine". Otherwise, I'm going to start posting things about that "AGI" that I was able to train, and that can think () !!! Trust me, it's in Rust !! () : at the same level as a single cell organism in a simulated environment

amelius 1y ago

> Tell me about it when I can buy it. Sorry if this comes across as snarky but perhaps you should not read posts on a hacker forum, and instead limit yourself to reading advertisements?

pasttense01 1y ago
All we want is accurate titles, not clickbait ones.