Just what we need another dumbfuck mixing chemicals to ki.. er cure us
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Republicans: "The vaccines were approved too quickly—they're not safe!"
Also Republicans:
Sidenote: the vaccines were based on research that had been worked on for decades.
I'm sorry, he wants to trust algorithms known to make shit up, over scientists who get paid by big pharma to lie? /s
scientists who get paid by big pharma to lie?
Low key, unironically. The FDA has a disturbing history of approving certain medications and treatments before they've been safely tested and restricting certain medications and treatments because they're politically polarized. Elon's brain chip keeps getting ignored by regulators. Weight loss drugs and smoking alternatives keep getting special treatment. Meanwhile, mild narcotics and modern contraceptives are constantly bottled up by partisan regulators.
The joke of all this is RFK Jr effectively doubling down on the politicized system under the cover of "Computer Said So".
This was quite literally his conspiracy theorists groups' entire complaint! Wtf
Your mistake is looking for consistency when it's actually just people and bots pushing false narratives. It's not an honest discussion where participants are bound to the rules of logic; they're just exploiting the fact that you think they're engaging in discourse and behave accordingly.
Me, a retail health care consumer: "Are we talking about preventative treatments like vaccinations? Or mild narcotics like marijuana? Or contraceptives, like Plan B?"
RFK Jr: "Arrest that man."
Tell me you don't know how AI works without telling me you don't know how AI or drug testing works.
Um, maybe this is something I'm too Canadian too understand, but if you are not going to trust the experts, who are you supposed to trust?
AI and money of course. Mostly money.
I asked Copilot if my new medication that cures 100% of pancreatic cancer by giving 100% of the patients liver cancer would be approved, and it told me that it would receive 'conditional approval'. So, that's good.
Made Fast, made safe, made effective.
Pick two*.
^*safe is not valid if fast is chosen^
Sugar pills and saline are decently safe and can be made pretty fast
Suglets are delicious. Especially sprayed with amphetamines.
Sounds like tictacs and Gatorade.
New measles treatment just dropped!
Am I not supposed to be operating off of those?
I dunno, the Covid vaccine got prioritized and through the process pretty fast.
The first mRNA vaccine for covid was synthesized within a month of the national emergency declaration. But there was about a year of trials and approvals before it was allowed to be mass distributed.
Which is still blindingly fast. It got EUA or emergency use authorization. Most drugs take 5-10y of trials not including the decade+ of basic R+D to reach approval.
A large reason for that speed was other mRNA vaccines in trials safely for a few decades and the adenovirus being in use for other vaccines already.
other mRNA vaccines in trials safely for a few decades
The Oxford/AstraZeneca adenoviral vaccine has some human testing history, but the mRNA technology had only previously been tested on animals.
Not the specific diseases(cause covid-19 didn't exist), the technique/methodology. MERS and SARS are different things.
Adenovirus was used as far back as the 1963 (it had problems then), for "resporatory disease". and was used for ebola vaccines as recent 2020. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9543183/#B84
mRNA (very much not DNA) was trialed in the 1990s to treat flu in mice and in a human rabies vaccine attempt in 2013. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/the-long-history-of-mrna-vaccines
Not instantly though. They did the work, they just did it as fast as they possibly could.
In vaccine timelines pretty much instant no?
It's only risking people's health... What could go wrong..
Every day, I see headlines that make me wonder how The Onion hasn't gone out of business.
I mean, how do you even compete?
The FDA is already run by a hallucinating entity in fairness; so the impact should be less severe than other areas LLMs are introduced for decision making.
Why is this man so dead set on making the worst decisions? God…
If you forget for a second about all the deaths and suffering this ghoul is responsible for, you have to admit this is very funny
Ghoul is the correct term.
That sentence is everything wrong with the world.
That fucking sentence did it for me. Jesus this can be anymore like a 1984 prequel. Orwell was prescient.
So far I haven't seen AI that can affect real world physical objects which is a significant part of testing. I have a few guesses... Either he has a bunch of pull-shit he wants to sell that would never be FDA approved, he took a lot of money from AI companies, he thinks that AI these is like Star Trek and shit, or he's a fucking idiot. My guess is that it's a combination of all of these.
Depends if the AI is LLMs or task specific protein folding. How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It
task specific protein folding
Gives you a model that can be tested in clinical trials. It doesn't give you the results of clinical trials.
At this point I'm not going to be looking to the US institutions for medical recommendations. I'll be looking at Canada and the UK.
And I'm fortunate enough to be day trip range to canada, so as long as the border stays open I'll be able to get vaccines.
is he attempting to smile or laugh in that photo? it’s so disturbing.
Probably trying to look at a solar eclipse.
If he's so confident he and his family can take them first
Confidence without expertise is like baking a cake and saying you're not sure if there was shit in the batter.
He's disconnected from reality by his wealth and power excluding him from consequences to his actions and beliefs, and disconnect from morality by the same leading to corruption and immorality.
He's the billionaire narcissist confidently taking his sub down to see the Titanic and bringing us all down with him.
New Drug: Worm Eggs.
Effects: Allows worms to hatch in brain which turn populace into dumb fucks
Eligibility: Everyone, delivered at birth to stave off personal growth.
AI: APPROVED!
Y’know whenever I hear someone talking about the tremendous benefits of turning decision-based processes over to AI, i think to myself, “Self,” i thinks, “that there is one of the stupidest motherfuckers alive today. Or a young programmer.”
Okay but hear me out: We replace the entire executive branch of the US government with AI. It'll be roughly as prone to making shit up as the people in charge already are, but since it's trained on data sets made by people it'll probably act more in line with what people actually want.
I can code this "ai" up for him:
if (drug.name == "ivermectin") {
drug.approved = true;
}
// hell, even:
drug.approved = (drug.name == "ivermectin")
Well a whole new genre of potential apocalypses has been unlocked then
What could possibly go wrong?! 😳
How many people are going to die before they stop that utterly stupid idea?