AI to cure aging and depression? Optimist thread meets skepticism on drug pipelines
rand_longevity · x · 2026-11-01
@DrSingularity predicts AI will rapidly help cure cancer, dementia and aging itself, with toad-venom psychedelics preventing millions of depression-linked suicides. randlongevity pushes back: "perfectly designed happy pills with no side effects" is fantasy — a decade from now, today will look like medicine's barbaric era. The exchange captures the optimism-vs-skepticism split in AI×longevity discourse.
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