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Upvoted, but I'm a bit confused as to what we're trying to refer to with "spam".
If by spam we mean advertising, yes. Definitely.
If by spam we mean undesirable messaging that lowers the quality of the site, then I would think that this is very much not spam.
Some people (myself included) use "spam" to refer to any kind of advertising in a public setting, e.g. you might preface an email sent out to multiple mailing lists as "sorry for the spam, guys, but..." even if it's a valuable and high-quality email. The connotation, to me, is mildly self-deprecating rather than strictly negative.
If this startup was not associated with MIRI I would downvote it; there are lots of great startups but this is not the place to advertise them.
It's medicine, done rationally. This is a site about rationality. The relevance seems clear regardless of it's origin.
A lot of businesses could have "done rationally" appended to them. MetaMed is "medicine, done rationally" (using statistics). Google is "search done rationally"(with statistics). The only reason medicine stands out is due the the rather poor baseline.
Alternative words to "only" include "valid" and "sufficient".
Your example doesn't support your intended conclusion. In a world with irrational and often unhelpful search engines and an unknown, newly formed "Google", it would be entirely appropriate to make people aware of it, in a similar post to this one.