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The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure

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Re: The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure

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> The last 20% takes 99% of the work. Of course it does, since the first 80% take literal minutes! But if you compare to doing it entirely manually, it's still x5 more efficient. Why would you do it all by hand (spending 200hours in the process…) when you're an “AI entrepreneur”… In fairness, it pains me to see people as gullible as you are just because you like the idea of the story being true.

You don't understand how the technology in question works, and you're just making shit up because you don't want to admit to being wrong. What are you alleging here anyways? That all the scientists quoted and photographed in the article discussing their part in making the vaccine are in on the game? That the Australian made the story up wholesale? Come on.

> You don't understand how the technology in question work

See my comment history. I do know very well how language models work. Thank you.

What I don't know is why you're claiming you disagree with the story reported here being bullshit (the story being almost literally “ChatGPT did the heavy lifting and the only reason we can't have nice thing is because red tape is blocking humanity”: “he used AI to teach himself about how a personalized vaccine could work, designed much of the process himself. […] The red tape was actually harder than the vaccine creation”), when you know very well it's bullshit because your comments describe what has most likely happened (ChatGPT did nothing much besides telling what could work and pointing towards which scientists to seek help from).

Again, literally no one question the fact that mRNA-based medicine has incredible potential, the bullshit here is not about the medicine: it's about red tape being the only bottleneck in a fantasyland where AI solves all the hard challenges.

Re: The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure

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For those of modest means there is also the "fail first" insurance process where you need to use less expensive therapies before a more appropriate therapy is approved. Each failure can be costly to a patient's health, often exacting irreversible comorbidities, not even considering lost work, family wellbeing, and pain/suffering. For those with rare diseases, insurance also doesn't help with "N of 1" efforts. A case…

We have something similar in Brazil. Our public system, SUS, has treatment protocols where you sometimes need to try drug A before you can get access to drug B. BUT the protocol is written by a medical committee - CONITEC -, not by an insurance company desperately trying to save money. When I need to skip a step, I write a lenghthy clinical justification and send it up. And it can take time, sometimes months. It's super frustrating, yes, but at the very least I know the person reviewing it is not incentivized to deny it. They are checking if my reasoning makes sense, not calculating how much it will cost their employer. That's the part that's hard to explain to Americans, that the bureaucracy here is slow and annoying but it's not adversarial. Nobody's profiting from telling me my patient doesn't need a medication. In the US model someone literally is. That changes everything about the practice.
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