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Paul Conyngham’s cancer vaccine is an example of AI behaving as a normal technology

Submission note: I wrote this article last month, when this case was first reported. It has since been covered by Astral Codex Ten for April's linkpost, and was praised by RFK Jr. in a Senate hearing on Wednesday. (RFK Jr. was seemingly unaware that the AI-powered treatment he was referring...

Contra Byrnes on UV & cancer

In his recent LessWrong post, Some takes on UV & cancer, Steve Byrnes comes out against the "Public Health Orthodoxy" on UV. Among other topics I won't be addressing, Brynes claims that non-sunburn sun exposure does not increase risk of skin cancer, and suggests that people should aim to "wean...