
marginal idea
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marginal idea
@marginalidea
all my situations are special



“it’s trivially easy to make an mRNA vaccine to cure cancer” followed by “but we’re still extremely far from proving it works” is not the flex you think it is but also the most accidentally honest summary of everything wrong with modern science i’ve ever read. the science works, the institution doesn’t. and the institution will let you die on a waiting list before it admits that a guy with chatgpt and $3,000 just did what they need 15 years, $2 billion, and six committees to approve. academia has become a parking lot for bureaucrats who gatekeep cures and progress because their tenure depends on it. the biggest medical advances in history didn’t have an IRB protocol. medical breakthroughs happen because someone just did the thing.

We are starting to test ads in ChatGPT free and Go (new $8/month option) tiers. Here are our principles. Most importantly, we will not accept money to influence the answer ChatGPT gives you, and we keep your conversations private from advertisers. It is clear to us that a lot of people want to use a lot of AI and don't want to pay, so we are are hopeful a business model like this can work. (An example of ads I like are on Instagram, where I've found stuff I like that I otherwise never would have. We will try to make ads ever more useful to users.)



The President of the United States answers unknown numbers lmao









