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But is this related to the distributional inequality discussed in the article, or something else?

I'm a mathematician and I'm the biggest fighter most people have ever met this side of a PhD. It always felt like a fight to me personally, against the errors and entropy of my own mind. Not identical to cancer fighting but I'd say only the tactics are different.

Notice how it goes from "we proved Fields-medal level stuff" to "promising leads" when we go to the world of biology. Still awesome, but speaks to the limitations of pure thinking in a more applied subject. No automatic cancer cures today.

So you are 100% confident that a few centuries from now there will be no safe way to dispose of nuclear waste by shooting it into space? Well, maybe you have a time machine, but I don't, so I still think it's a fine idea that we can determine the practicality of later. The point remains that we don't need to solve for millions of years.

> Wow, that comment is extremely misleading and exaggerated.

Wow, quite the oversell there! Modern nuclear reactors are widely recognized as safe by nonpartisan sources. And why do we need to solve for millions of years of storage? In a couple centuries at most, we'll be able to blast the stuff into space if that's what makes us comfortable.