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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Simply using AI isn’t an issue… Allowing it to take over in a way that accelerates the removal of the knowledge from our pools of knowledge is a problem. Allowing companies to use AI as a direct replacement of actual medical professionals will remove knowledge from society. We already know that we can’t use AI to fuel more AI learning… the models implode. In order to continue learning more from medicine, we need to keep pushing for human learning and understanding.

    Funny that you agree with me and apparently see useful discussion to have here… but downvote me even though the comment certainly added to the discussion.

    Oh, and next time don’t put words into someone’s mouth, very much a bad faith action that harms meaningful discussion. I never said we should ban it or never use it. A better answer would be to legislate that doctors must still oversee, or must be the approving authority. That AI can never have a final say in someone’s care and that research must never be sourced from AI sources. All I said, is that if we continue what we’re doing and rely on AI in any meaningful capacity, we will run into problems. Especially in the context of the comment I responded to which opined upon corporation controlled AI.

    FFS… they can’t even run a vending machine. https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

    Oh… and actually I would consider the 85% that it gets to be pretty poor considering that the AI was likely trained on the full breadth of NEJM information. Doctors don’t have that ability to retain and train on 100% of all knowledge of the NEJM, so mistaking things makes sense for them. It doesn’t make sense for something that was trained on NEJM data to screw up on an NEJM case.

    My stance is the same for all AI. I’ll use it to generate basic code for me. I’ll never run that without review. Or to jumpstart research into a topic… and validate the information presented with outside direct sources.

    TL;DR: Tool is good… Source is bad.







  • Yeah, while I understand and agree with the sentiment… If you have 300 people and on average somebody gets sick once a year for 2 days… You’re going to have to hit some lotto style stats that they all don’t lineup together to get a clear day of 100% attendance. Now realize that normal is 2-4 times a year… not just once. It’s hard to corral that many people and get them all in on the same day available without some sort of conflict, sick days alone. Forget all the other stuff, birthdays, births, funerals, etc…


  • The USA is also significantly bigger than every single one of those “comparable” countries. Actually bigger (population, size, really just about any size metric possible) than all of them combined. It’s a bit disingenuous to clump all of the USA together. Which fuels and proves my point about outsiders not understanding the USA.

    The range in “comparable” countries is also about 4 years… Why do you think that is? I mean the countries are basically right next to each other like states are here… yet for some reason despite sharing a border Switzerland and Germany have a 4.1 year difference in male life expectancy.

    I’m willing to bet money that different parts of the US, possibly even on a state by state or even region by region location would have wildly varying life expectancy than is being insinuated with a single monolithic number for “the USA”… Just like the EU countries listed here…

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_life_expectancy

    Turns out that is wildly true… The top 30 states all compete with the numbers given and fall within the ranges between Germany and Switzerland given in the charts in your link.

    Edit:

    If you drill down to counties… which is at the very bottom of the wiki article. You can see even more disparity. And the only reason I bring this up is that some counties in the USA are bigger than entire as countries in the EU. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-counties-in-the-united-states-by-total-area.html

    There is issues with getting infrastructure EVERYWHERE when the country is just so damn big and sparse.

    Edit2: I should clarify that I don’t doubt that the EU overall is better off… Mostly because being fat is a huge problem in the USA that is much less prevalent than the EU overall. But just clumping shit willy nilly is exactly what I was referencing… Mississippi vs California is a world of difference.










  • You know what that equates to?


    At COB on a random friday…

    The commander walks out to the front of the formation. The unit comes to attention. First SGT hands over control to the commander and walks to the rear of the formation

    Commander: <cover formalities of shit that they decide is important enough to cover for the week, Motorpool shit, upcoming range days/training/missions, whatever>… Now that we got that out of the way, President Trump is coming to Ft Bragg for an event. Battalion says we have 15 slots to the event. Those who are interested in going, come see me in my office after formation or talk to your platoon Sergeant. For everyone else… Go home, don’t beat your kids, wife, car, or each other. For the new guy that showed up… Get a battle buddy. I’m heading out to the officers lounge. If you see me at the bar this weekend… leave me the fuck alone. Dismissed.

    Commander walks away


    Only people who want to go will sign up for it. And most of those people will go because it’s during duty hours and they don’t want to get picked for some random other duty (like CQ, or cutting lawns). And if they go and end up making their commander look like shit, they’ll be reprimanded.

    Nothing about this was “vetting”. I’ve seen this type of shit dozens of times, even while deployed in Afghanistan (Who wants to go see this random senator who’s coming out here on a guided tour to make themselves feel better!).

    Now here’s the kicker… The article COULD be correct. I COULD be wrong. But since they fucked up and lied about one thing that I know for a fact happens for a completely different reason, I MUST discount the other things they say because I know that it’s more likely to have happened the way I’ve seen it happen before.

    And lastly, I REALLY believe my concept is what happened… Simply because in the military.com article…

    “If soldiers have political views that are in opposition to the current administration and they don’t want to be in the audience then they need to speak with their leadership and get swapped out,”

    Meaning that if someone got voluntold to show up (a unit didn’t get enough volunteers but the commander sent the full amount regardless), get those soldiers swapped out with standbys from units that had more people who wanted to go than the allotted slots for the unit (usually from battalion [HHC/HHB (Arty!)] itself).

    It’s funny because writing this paints me as someone who backs Trump. I do not agree at all that the speech should have happened on a post at all based on what I’ve heard about it (I haven’t watched it yet). Post commander should have shut that shit down, or minimized the event as much as possible. But the claims at the face, from what I’ve seen are just absurd. They fly in the face of my lived experience for 7 years, the dozens of events that I marched in. The information that I have first hand knowledge of that happened the majority under Obama… literally the same shit was happening then. Claiming that now it’s a problem because it’s Orange man… leads me to outright throw away these stories as garbage. You’re losing a population of voters who know that this shit is a norm in that specific circle, as stupid as it may be or as much as you don’t understand it happening.