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Clarity comments on Open thread, Nov. 09 - Nov. 15, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Clarity 09 November 2015 11:03:28AM *  0 points [-]

Last month Astra Zeneca released a whole load of pre-clinical cancer data to the public. It's a great move towards pharmacotransparency. However, their extensive 'AI' causality mining subsidiaries have probably identified anything individual researchers may hope to find. Viva la machina!

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 November 2015 11:21:06AM 0 points [-]

However, their extensive 'AI' causality mining subsidiaries have probably identified anything individual researchers may hope to find.

I think that's unlikely. Having more data about what drugs do is useful for a lot of individual researchers who have complex models to predict the activity of chemical substances.

Over time algorithm get better and there's more data to be aggregated.

Comment author: Clarity 11 November 2015 09:27:54AM 0 points [-]

Didn't think of that, cheers.