Compute as Life: The Ethical Causal Chain of AI Curing Cancer
flowersslop · x · 2026-08-23
The tweet presents a radical argument linking compute supply to survival: assuming OpenAI or Anthropic could cure cancer in 1-3 years with sufficient compute, cutting off that compute would directly cause deaths that were otherwise preventable, whereas failure would simply leave them alive. The author argues this is not dramatization but a literal causal chain based on the premise that compute is a prerequisite for saving lives, countering concerns about data center harms.
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