"We'd rather let people die than lose to next-token prediction": AI cancer-cure debate
flowersslop · x · 2026-09-09
Quoting a viral post mourning that AI is solving humanity's greatest challenges — curing cancer and Alzheimer's, cracking millennium problems — flowersslop offers a sarcastic twist: waiting another decade could cost hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths, but at least humanity wouldn't feel humiliated by next-token prediction. A snapshot of the unease around AI claiming humanity's intellectual crown.
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