Egregoros

(how about curing all diseases?)

The "Magic" Problem: There is a growing concern that AI may soon produce scientific breakthroughs (like fusion or new drugs) that are incomprehensible to human researchers, making the world feel like it's run by "magic"

Most major diseases we know of *should* be cured by now, but research is wildly inefficient due to "scientists" who one day have an idea and then make it their life's work to discredit anyone who disagrees with it - rather than working the evidence and trying to find better and better models.

@cjd

plus Pharma Industry

Big pharma is no help, but they're not the worst offender here.

Big Slop is worse because if you find evidence that X is causing cancer, the maker of X is going to call you and say "hey hey hey, lets not be too hasty, maybe it's experimental error, maybe you need to look again, you have a nice career and you wouldn't want to throw it all away on what might be a bad result, now would you?"

But I maintain that the worst culprit is dumb scientists.

@cjd @CSB so what I'm hearing is we need to model the universe in Lean and use that model to substantiate contentious hypotheses