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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/cloudrunner69 on 2024-01-14 12:48:21+00:00.
It would be great if AI could be used to develop new improved treatments that actually cure problems rather than putting a band aid over them. But why should we have to wait for AI to do it? Humans could do this right now if they wanted to but for some fucked up reason they all want to develop stuff independently of each other rather than collaborate cause they want to get recognition and funding.
The entire system is fucked and it needs to be burned to the ground. We could have fixed everything by now if we set goals and had everyone working together to achieve them.
Take cancer for example. I'm sick of people saying how hard it is to cure cancer and all the other excuses, I'm sure it's hard, but what has made the problem even more difficult to solve is the enormous amount of bureaucratic red tape political and academic shit fuckery surrounding it. That's the real problem with it.
There are hundreds of research labs working on this problem all over the world. And they are each funded independently from each other. And they don't collaborate with each other. What we should have is a singular global cancer research centre where all the scientists who are working on this problem are working on it. The intuition would be funded by every nation in the world and even by people above a certain net worth. Say 1% of each nations wealth goes towards it (though that would be way to much so what ever works).
This is how the problem is solved. Get all the best people in the one place and fucking do it. A god dam Manhattan project for cancer. But also a Manhattan project for heart disease, diabetes, blindness, stroke, arthritis. Maybe take the top 50 debilitating disease and have a Manhattan project for each one. Throw 25 billion at each one, that should be enough to fund each for at least 20 years. Hell the world can throw over a trillion at COVID in 2 years, so why not a trillion at the diseases which have been killing hundreds of millions for like forever. Backwards fucking world needs to get its shit together. You want a better society then fix the worlds health problems, we have all the tools we just need to get our priorities straight and some god dam organization skills and a big fucking bouncer to keep the snakes out of the building.
Does this world not want these problem solved as fast as possible? What blows my fucking mind every time I think about is again with COVID. The entire world went into panic mode over something that suddenly came out of nowhere. But why is there not that same level of desperation to cure cancer or heart diseases or any of these other problems. It's absolute insanity. You know, like spending a few trillion on fighting terrorism when you have a much higher chance of dying in a car accident. People literally telling me how terrified of getting killed by a suicide bomber yet they get inside a car without a second a thought and hit the pedal to the metal. Same people who got their COVID jabs and then straight to the Maccas drive through to get a triple super sized Big mac meal. And don;t tell me I'm exaggerating, this is exactly the mentality of of the people. Obesity is an epidemic but it's fine cause we got our boosters.
People care more about the football world cup than radical life extension and humanity becoming an interplanetary civilisation. Why? No, not because the problem is hard, but because that is all the media fucking talks about, it brain washes everyone into watching sport and movies and the political circus, it exists to convince people that if they buy a bag of potato chips they will increase their chances of getting laid, cause junk food is sexy. Imagine using the media as a tool to convince everyone we should colonize Mars and radically extend everyone's lives for thousands of years, just pump that shit out into the air waves every hour like they do everything else. Media is a propaganda tool, so why not it use to spread positive propaganda about making this world a better place instead of propaganda about nationalism, division of peope and fucking wars.
When is this world going to get its shit together. We have everything we need to make this place amazing. I also hope AI will make things better but why are we waiting for AI to do it for us. And how are we sure that will even change the system and it not become hijack by the same people who are stagnating human advancement for their own benefit. Personally I think the people with the most power and money have an obligation to make this world a better place for everyone, if not they should be removed from those positions, forcefully if necessary. People are using technology to enrich their own lives when that tech should be being used to level up everyone. We don't need half this consumer shit we have and the other half of all this stuff should be built to last.
There was a point to all this, but fuck me if I remember what it was.