Victor Taelin speculates on AGI-era stroke first aid: recovery falls from 72% to 40% within 6 hours
louisvarge · x · 2026-10-19
Haskell/category-theory researcher Victor Taelin posted a long thread asking how AGI could concretely improve everyday lives, focusing on the fear that anyone can suddenly be disabled by a stroke. He sketches a hypothetical first-aid treatment, with an accompanying (likely AI-generated) curve for a small 4mm M2 clot treated with IV tenecteplase: disability-free recovery is 72% if treated within 30 minutes, drops to 49% at 3h and 40% at 6h, converging to the untreated baseline (35%) after 12h. His point: the time window is everything, and AI-driven rapid triage plus home emergency protocols could sharply cut disability. He frames it as speculative sci-fi from a layman.
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