Oct 14, 2026, 9:58 PM

@glyph @KaiserKitty @varx @jonny @ariadne @diazona Yeah, it's just them covering their asses and making big promises that they are woefully unqualified to even *understand* how to keep. They trot out this "cure cancer" thing everytime someone starts saying "maybe spending a trillion dollars to brute force language isn't a good idea, especially when we can already speak to each other".

I'm *quite* sick of them dangling some theoretical benefit like that to cover up their shenanigans. It's not just unscientific bullshit, it's cruel and unethical to do so. As noted, "cancer" isn't a single thing with a single cause and effect so the whole thing is just... they may as well claim to solve FTL travel, given their total lack of understanding of *anything* relevant.

(my own background is in protein folding, so while less relevant than bioinformatics I have enough knowledge to where their little "we'll cure cancer" has annoyed me to the point where I feel people should absolutely call them out on it, especially as they trotted that back out a few weeks. "We'll cure cancer" "really cause it looks like you're dicking around with re-inventing a lopsided wheel and you don't even *understand* what 'cancer' is")

(having said that I appreciate the input! But felt maybe I should give a little background to my own off-the-cuff annoyed joke since I actively do NOT want people to think either that A. that it's at *all* plausible to regurgitate reddit posts into a 'cancer cure', or that B. I believe they can)

Buuut all these freaking puff piece interviews and press releases... no one feels the need to ask, "didn't you say you were gonna 'cure cancer'? Why are you spending all your compute on solved problems", clearly.

Replies