[ExI] Alzheimers again

[Anders Sandberg]

William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> , 10/12/2014 8:04 PM:

It has become so expensive and so hard to prove the efficacy of a drug or therapy, we stifle experimentation and
slow progress nearly to a halt. 


I read that it takes about 100 Million dollars to get a drug to market. 


Sorry, that must have been a while ago. The latest Tufts estimate is 2.9 billion: http://www.fiercebiotech.com/story/average-cost-drug-rd-try-29b-size/2014-11-18


This is part of the reason of Eroom's law: http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v11/n3/fig_tab/nrd3681_F1.html


Yes, this is a system that needs to be fixed. Or circumvented. 
Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University
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