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Really puts the singularity hype into perspective. For years I've been hearing from them about radical medical advances just around the corner, and here we see
by singularskptk 11y ago
Really puts the singularity hype into perspective. For years I've been hearing from them about radical medical advances just around the corner, and here we see that on this front, rather than making exponential progress, or even just progress period, medical "science" is actually losing rather than gaining ground.
- matthewmacleod 11y agoI don't think your view quite reflects reality. - We have made and will continue to make massive medical advances. Look at things like cancer survival rates, for example. - Drug-resistant TB is actually treatable, and the reason for its existence in the first place is poor treatment practices that encourage the development of resistance. If this is a failure of anything, it's healthcare protocol rather than science.
- louithethrid 11y agoIm sure we can assign it to the survivors of a pandemic, to dig two massgraves - to be blamed and not to be blamed. Guess who gets the flowers.
- melling 11y agoI looked at the cancer survival rates. Over 30 years this looks like slow progress to me: http://healthhubs.net/images/cancer-survival-trends.gif http://healthhubs.net/images/cancer-survival-trends.gif
- melling 11y agoMedical science doesn't have a Moore's law. In fact, most things don't. Anyway, we're losing ground because humans are applying medicine incorrectly. We take antibiotics for viral infections and, like the article states, we use antibiotics but don't cure the disease so the disease builds a resistance. Short answer is that we did it to ourselves. I'm sure we'll spend billions of dollars in R&D and India will just ignore the patents.
- dman 11y agoWhom does the collective "we" refer to in "we'll spend billions of dollars in R&D" ?