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Their wordsIf a phase 3 clinical trial is positive, as Tao postulates, but humans do not understand the mechanism of action that would be level one evidence to administer a therapy. Every cancer patient on Earth would want it. Every doctor would give it.
Their wordsIf AI generates a cancer combination cure that no one understands, but passes a phase 3 randomized control trial, there's not a single cancer patient on Earth who would say no thank you.
Their wordsWe have a much deeper understanding than we did a hundred years ago, but we don't know if we have understood 5% or 50% or .05%. . We don't even know what we don't know.
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