A poster says almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would find human understanding of a working cure's mechanism irrelevant.
Sharing a slide from Terence Tao's “Math 2.0” public lecture at Caltech, a poster argued that if a cancer cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would consider human understanding of its mechanism irrelevant.
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@AndrewCurran_This is a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture yesterday evening at Caltech. I am highly confident that, if the cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would tell you that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them.
@tunguzIf a committee of human experts somehow tried to *prevent* patients from getting access to such a drug, I’m pretty sure they’d be dead within days.
@kimmonismusI fully agree. And this is the best proof that we simply cannot hold back on publishing research releases or show consideration for individual sensitivities when the health and survival of many are at stake.@AndrewCurran_This is a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture yesterday evening at Caltech. I am highly confident that, if the cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would tell you that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them.@tunguzIf a committee of human experts somehow tried to *prevent* patients from getting access to such a drug, I’m pretty sure they’d be dead within days.@kimmonismusI fully agree. And this is the best proof that we simply cannot hold back on publishing research releases or show consideration for individual sensitivities when the health and survival of many are at stake.@AndrewCurran_This is a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture yesterday evening at Caltech. I am highly confident that, if the cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would tell you that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them.@tunguzIf a committee of human experts somehow tried to *prevent* patients from getting access to such a drug, I’m pretty sure they’d be dead within days.@kimmonismusI fully agree. And this is the best proof that we simply cannot hold back on publishing research releases or show consideration for individual sensitivities when the health and survival of many are at stake.@AndrewCurran_This is a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture yesterday evening at Caltech. I am highly confident that, if the cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would tell you that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them.@tunguzIf a committee of human experts somehow tried to *prevent* patients from getting access to such a drug, I’m pretty sure they’d be dead within days.@kimmonismusI fully agree. And this is the best proof that we simply cannot hold back on publishing research releases or show consideration for individual sensitivities when the health and survival of many are at stake.—
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