• WildWeezing420 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    19 days ago

    It’s honestly disgusting how much “curing cancer” is exploited by powerful organizations and people to prey on the enormous suffering most people have experienced from cancer. Joe Biden promised to cure cancer in his presidency, then never followed up on it or mentioned it again. All these AI hucksters promised they would cure cancer with their AI, and we will never see that manifest into anything either because it was hot air to get investment hype. The more painful and destructive something is, the more capitalists can milk it for profits while maintaining the suffering and pain and attempting to sell an escape from it. They are actively dis-incentivized to cure cancer, that would be a massive profit loss. They need cancer to exist forever.

    • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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      19 days ago

      curing cancer would be a short-term profit spike so they’d go for it because fuck long term anything that’s the next CEO’s problem.

      the real issue is that cancer isn’t one thing it’s 100 different things that need 100 different “cures” so the whole thing was empty from the beginning, no conspiracy required.

      • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        19 days ago

        Maybe someday there will be a true cure for cancer but it’ll probably be some wild shit like retroviruses programmed to attack specifically your own cancer cells to turn on the apoptosis switch again. Modern therapies have come a really long way but it’s still like using a sledgehammer to do brain surgery.

        • Abracadaniel [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          19 days ago

          there are crispr based therapies out right now that are tailored to the patients DNA like you say but it’s for specific cancers and really expensive.

    • beanlover [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      19 days ago

      The horny chatbot bit is just an excuse to steal every last bit of your personal info (age verification).

      They will be deporting based on how (un-)wholesome your fetishes are.