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Ambitious_Bed_8841 t1_j6fhtq9 wrote

How quickly do you think all this progress will translate to people with mental illnesses. I have schizophrenia. Should I expect to live some of the rest of my life without this disease?

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RamanaSadhana t1_j6gf55f wrote

yes. you will probably find schizophrenia to be something that isnt a problem in the future! I dont know exactly when obviously, but I would think that in 10 years the medical world will be very different. The rate of change will increase quite dramatically as massive amounts of information comes about thanks to AI. I would expect that in 2035 at the latest you will be cured or have significant reduction in symptoms with little to no side effects from the new medicines or treatments.

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Northcliff t1_j6h16gu wrote

There isn’t a single known mechanism by which to cure mental illness. This is extraordinarily speculative

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RamanaSadhana t1_j6j6rrw wrote

Well then we'll find one. Don't be a pessimistic and boring

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Northcliff t1_j6j7w0l wrote

Maybe so, but at this juncture we can’t even theorize that it could be possible

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RamanaSadhana t1_j6j8i6q wrote

Who cares. People though we could never fly then we did, and a few years later were on the moon. Today's science isn't good enough for understanding the brain but we will figure it out rather quickly with more appropriate science probably within the next couple decades.

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Northcliff t1_j6j99rg wrote

If AI could deconstruct consciousness itself in order to achieve this, that is a way bigger hill to climb than solving mental illness, which you don’t seem to appreciate by comparing it to an airplane

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