WYR: Be able to perfectly predict the stock market but the cure to alzheimer's will never be found, or have the cure to alzheimer's but the cure to cancer is never found?

andrewta@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

WYR: Be able to perfectly predict the stock market but the cure to alzheimer's will never be found, or have the cure to alzheimer's but the cure to cancer is never found?

glimse@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

This is such an off-balance choice that anyone who picks the latter option is kind of a moron. Cancer is significantly more prevalent and it affects people of all ages and you’re more concerned with improving the twilight years of a smaller percentage of people? That’s dumb as hell.