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ChristianKl comments on Mathematics and saving lives - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 19 April 2014 04:54:44PM 1 point [-]

The FAI problem needs people doing math.

I think there are various biological problems where the math is underdeveloped. Physicists are as a community quite good at math but in biology there aren't that as people working on the underlying math.

Problems such as calculating cancer survival rates could benefit a lot from better statistical tools. Depending on what you mean with pure math statistics might not be included, but statistics matters.