alt Hacker NewsAnd to be fair - that how medicine works today. We don’t really understand what goes into our body, so that’s why we do clinical trials. And sometimes we discover adverse side effects years and decades after a drug has been released.
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philjohn • yesterday at 4:38 PM
Indeed - we don't know all of the mechanisms of Tylenol, yet we know it works, and is safe when taken as directed.
alansaber • yesterday at 2:48 PM
Ironically this is one of the worst counterexamples he could have selected.
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merely-unlikely • yesterday at 3:12 PM
Not only that, but also those clinical trials often have low sample sizes. Trials involving only a few hundred patients, or even fewer, are pretty common.
dekhn • yesterday at 3:06 PM
not just clinical trials- there is an enormous amount of in-vivo model study before the molecules go into people.
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Yes, and that isn't the model's fault any more than it would be for a human.
That's what the trials and all are for.
Who cares about understanding it, in the face of efficacy?
I want to understand everything; I think AI will help that happen, not hinder it.
All the arguments about the future mathematicians are imagined, and emotional.