> I think there are a lot of people who feel like they were locked out of funding opportunities because of the focus on amyloid-beta. Maybe this is true, I don’t know.
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You completely excluded the last sentence of the quote by the GP. That sentence at least partially addresses your concern:
> The lab I’m in has worked on tau for decades.
The lab the GP is working in has been, for decades, funded and working to study ameloid tau -- one of the very alternative hypotheses that are under study. Most of the entire post was about all the other hypotheses that are active and regularly funded.
No one is omniscient, no one can know exactly the right set of funding to get the optimal scientific outcome with the least amount of money. That omniscience isn't going to happen no matter how awesome AI is.
The best course for medical breakthroughs is to fund multiple hypotheses at once which is exactly what NIH does. The more funding to allow research into various hypotheses the better. Whatever it is doge is doing straight shutting shit down is the incompetent fools course plotted by megalomaniacal and ignorant billionaires.
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You completely excluded the last sentence of the quote by the GP. That sentence at least partially addresses your concern:
> The lab I’m in has worked on tau for decades.
The lab the GP is working in has been, for decades, funded and working to study ameloid tau -- one of the very alternative hypotheses that are under study. Most of the entire post was about all the other hypotheses that are active and regularly funded.
No one is omniscient, no one can know exactly the right set of funding to get the optimal scientific outcome with the least amount of money. That omniscience isn't going to happen no matter how awesome AI is.
The best course for medical breakthroughs is to fund multiple hypotheses at once which is exactly what NIH does. The more funding to allow research into various hypotheses the better. Whatever it is doge is doing straight shutting shit down is the incompetent fools course plotted by megalomaniacal and ignorant billionaires.