I find this pretty funny. All over the Internet, you will find people accusing writing of being AI. Things that don’t really stand out to me. It’s become the new witchcraft. It seems we’re at a point where nobody can tell what was written by human, so what’s the point in reading any of it?
Could I use this app to hire a nurse and get a diagnosis from home? If we can start getting even meagre medical treatment to skip insurance / other middle men, I could see this having a great impact on healthcare prices, especially since AI is such a good information extractor, which is 90% of the role doctors play anyway.
Generally speaking nurses in the united states cannot provide a diagnosis, at least without jeopardizing their license. You can already find a doctor using a service like Zocdoc who may cut out middlemen, though regulatory capture has made it close to impossible to meaningfully reduce costs in this way. I would not recommend using AI to diagnose or treat yourself (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/well/ai-chatgpt-medicatio..., for instance) without the help of somebody highly trained to interpret this information and make good decisions.
Nurses don't really do diagnosis, but follow the ones doctors give.
(Except for trivial things)
Otherwise I unfortunately know plenty of doctors that could easily be replaced by an LLM, but for now I prefer a diagnosis from a real doctor (who may use AI as a tool).
There are many types of nurses, for example Nurse Practitioners have masters or doctorates of nursing can do much or all of what a doctor could within their specific scopes.
If you really believe that information extraction is 90% of what doctors do then you're deeply ignorant about how healthcare actually works and not qualified to even have an opinion on this subject.
The point I'm trying to make is that this is bad...
[edit] ... and not because discovery is 90% of what a doctor does, but because treatment ultimately boils down to a judgement call with possibly irreversible consequences
This is not an inherent truth to capitalism. It might somewhat be the case in America right now, but that’s because we have chosen certain tax brackets and other choices that allows for it.
Remove capital, and concentration of power is an inherent truth to any system, particularly one claiming to be socialist and controlling the economy on behalf of the people.
One reason I'm fully in support of capitalism is that you're 100% free to create subsystems within it. Go get some people together, buy some cheap land in the middle of nowhere, and start your new socialist, communists, or whatever other system you might fancy utopia.
You even get an instant all-inclusive free-trade agreement with the entire United States! All you need to be able to do is produce enough within your society to pay your land tax. By contrast try to start a little capitalist society within a 'social' economic system, and it'd be off to the gulags with you.
This freedom makes it quite difficult to take the hyperbolic claims against capitalism seriously. Obviously it has lots of problems, especially in the current crony capitalist system we have, but if the solutions were as simple as e.g. 'go be socialist instead' then people could prove it even within the system itself.
The concentration of power and the crossed planetary boundaries...
Money or economy is a social construct. The laws of physics and nature are, ehm kinda constant.
Eternal growth on a finite planet isn't exactly feasible and the planet is getting a mild fever as we speak. It'll recover, but it'll remove the symbiotic beings once they've turned into parasites.
And freedom in America is kinda joke these days at least anywhere else in the world : - )
I was recently working on a project where I had to come up with a novel solution to a problem the company was facing. The problem has been solved before, but in suboptimal ways that wouldn’t work for this specific company. I came up with a pretty interesting solution, one that combines different statistical methods, and was a little more complicated, but gave better results.
I asked Claude what it thought about the technique. It hated it. It loathed the idea that I was not sticking with traditional methods that were pointed to in papers and pre-existing open source packages. Even after talking through the idea and how it was better and showing it the results, it was weirdly hesitant to admit it was a valid method, simply because it seemed nervous that the idea was novel.
I don’t have a real moral to the story, I just thought I would add my anecdote here.
I had a similar experience with not being able to convince Claude of a different approach to a problem. Then I shared the idea with Codex and it liked it. As another commenter said, you can have the same thing happen with humans.
Interesting! My experience is that Claude has a tendency to always suggest the true and tried, but likes off-center ideas when I present them. Fable especially has a "yes, and!" attitude where it understands and plusses the idea.
That’s the news. The fed is desperately trying to get interest rates lower, but the free market isn’t buying it. The treasury is also pulling out some very desperate moves to control this, like selling euro for JPY without even telling the EU, we will see how it works out.
I like to use the analogy that the human brain (when it comes to intelligence) is like a computer. We have storage, which is just long-term memory. We have RAM, which is your ability to keep track of a mental model of something you’re actively working on, and then there’s the CPU, which is the ability to make logical leaps and connections on that mental model (or maybe storage).
I’ve met different people throughout my career whose intelligence came in 1 specific area. For instance, my friend is extremely good at trivia, he clearly has a lot of storage and can access it easily. I think I’ve only met one person who was excellent in all three areas of intelligence.
Obviously this is a simplification, but it’s how I like to illustrate my ideas on intelligence at parties and first dates.
There are also other areas, maybe less abstract, but still very much of the same flavour
- emotional/social intelligence
- musical
- physical (as in being able to do various physical activities competently, without much, if any, training; understanding what your body can and can't do)
- etc
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