Comment by greazy
20 days ago
OP if you're reading this, your time is better spent advocating for your partner, being there for her and loving her.
We've been using "AI" in science far longer than you realise. We happily take on new tech at breath taking speed.
Don't waste your time, please just focus on her and not the disease.
I agree with you. Having lost a close family member to cancer over a period of years, the only regret I have is not trying more to improve her quality of life for as long as I could. Putting in effort to understand the diagnosis is warranted, but there are no miracle cures, even if there are miracles sometimes.
Not only are you're trying to keep a man from potentially achieving something, and not only are you also absolutely not considering how he'd feel not trying whatever he can, but you're also not considering what she thinks, feels or wants.
Not at all. I recognize the pattern. He wants to do something to control the thing he can’t control, it’s the same urge that leads people to magic diets and prayer going back to ancient times. Most of the time, your magic herb rich chicken soup is good for you and makes everyone feel a little better, whether or not it has anything to do with the disease.
Be he’s trying to play oncologist on TV with a cast of AI sidekicks to encourage him. This will not work. It will make him a less effective advocate within the medical system where he needs to focus on engaging experts, and drive him crazy in the meantime.
If the author is reading this, good luck. And fuck cancer.
I'm okay with that. I'd rather he spend every minute with her then waste his time trying to tech bro a solution.
It's even more disappointing to see the focus is LLM bullshit. He's not reaching out to current experts in the field to provide his expertise or funding, unfortunately he decided the best approach is, in my opinion, the most ludicrous approach. LLMs can synthesis huge amounts of knowledge, if it's useful a domain expert is using it to its full advantage.
My opinion is that LLMs are trash at generating any useful hypothesis beyond standard single degree ideas that anyone in the field would have.
I'd gladly eat my words. Maybe this post will be looked back on like the Dropbox comment. If LLMs could do such wonders, we would be entering a golden age.
> but you're also not considering what she thinks, feels or wants.
Im doing exactly that! I don't want her to see her partner be consumed by an endless and most likely fruitless quest.
Worst case scenario is what, he spends time with her? Oh the horror.
A hundred years ago he would be at church praying to god for a cure every day. He has replaced that with AI, the effect is the same. Looking for a solution/cure for when medicine has failed.
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why would you support a person in the sad psychosis, that they can ai their way to a solution of cancer, and that they can do so better than medical professional teams and research institutions at universities wth lots of expertise and lots of resources
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