The speaker says there is substantial precedent for identifying literature relevant to a person's condition and using it to cure that person.

“super is relevant to your conditions then you'll be able to cure the person and there's plenty of precedent for it and it can massively scale up those kinds of operations i think that impact in the short run is actually very possible but material science another example and i think there's a long tail of other domains where we should just see real changes in in kind of what is possible for humanity to accomplish”