Counter to Slowdown Call: Delayed Economic Growth Kills, Not Medical AI
panickssery · x · 2026-09-28
Responding to the "global slowdown is in everyone's interest" argument, panickssery contends medical AI isn't the main bottleneck to medical progress — regardless of pause-style regulation, people will die from medicines arriving later, mostly because the necessary explosive economic growth is delayed or slowed.
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