lapseofreason

lapseofreason t1_iwiulei wrote

Cancer survivor here. This is simply not true. They start expensive and then become increasingly cheaper when subject to competition and economies of scale. It really is much cheaper in the long run to save your life than to have you die. Without the initial high price it is less likely that a lot of these avenues would be pursued and that is why the USA is always on the cutting edge of this sort of thing. It is not great in the short term but fantastic in the longer term

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lapseofreason t1_ir9pe3z wrote

It feels like the most transformative tech in my lifetime. One minute is not there and then it suddenly appeared, destroying some livelihoods in the blink of an eye but releasing massive creativity for the average person. There must be more of these around the corner that are unanticipated too. The singularity must be close but it is different than envisioned. It is very hard to see how we create new jobs with anything like the speed we need to not have a massive change in society's structure. My daughter was looking at studying film in University in a few years time - but I doubt that will even be a thing by then.

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