When I went to my most recent doctor’s appointment they told me that I needed to sign on the signature pad that I agreed to be treated.
I asked to see the agreement I’m signing and they lied to me and said it’s something I’ve already agreed to even though the last updated date on the document was after my last visit.
Then they said that if I wanted to actually read what I’m signing that it could delay being seen by the provider and made a big deal about trying to find the paper.
Eventually I was able to find the full documents I was agreeing to in MyChart and it wasn’t just that I was okay with being treated.
By that line of thinking, even if AI scribes are terrible, you can only blame the doctor because they didn’t check their notes.
In this case as the patient, all you care is there was an inaccurate diagnosis in your notes. If the doctor were typing them up by hand, presumably that would not have happened.
Similarly if Tesla Self Driving cars got into collisions at 3x the rate of non-self driving, would you defend Tesla because all issues are the drivers fault who are supposed to have their hands on the wheels and paying attention?
They do define it clearly in the 45 page linked PDF. They look at 7 day standard deviation of bedtime, then separate it into 3 groups where the worst one is labeled irregular.
The standard deviation of the worst groups bedtime was 108 minutes.
“For bedtime regularity, the median variability was 33 min
(IQR 13) in the regular group, 59 min (IQR 15) in the fairly regular group,
and 108 min (IQR 55) in the irregular group. For wake-up time regularity,
the corresponding values were 41 min (IQR 19), 73 min (IQR 15), and 114
min (IQR 41), respectively. For the sleep midpoint regularity, the median
variability was 33 min (IQR 13) in the regular group, 55 min (IQR 11) in
the fairly regular group, and 93 min (IQR 40) in the irregular group.”
There were other prediction markets like Intrade which was founded in 1999. I had coworkers who made a significant amount of money doing prediction market arbitrage for the 2012 election.
If you’ve ever felt like you didn’t belong, like your contributions were judged on something other than quality, like you were expected to be someone you’re not—I want you to know:
You are not alone.
Your differences matter. Your perspective matters. Your voice matters, even when—and especially when—it doesn’t sound like everyone else’s.
> Writing some Irish language poems on your lunchbreaks is cheap. Doing public readings as an unknown poet is not.
How is doing public reading of poetry not cheap?
I have friends who do standup comedy and they just show up at open mic nights and it doesn’t cost them anything. One is good enough that now the venues are paying him a little bit.
AI can help increase productivity, that is get more outputs (goods/services) for the same inputs.
Two hundred years ago, shirts had to be hand-spun, hand-woven, and hand-sewn, so ordinary people could only own one or two. Now because of automation and factories they are so cheap that poor people have many.
Previously 97% of the workforce was engaged in agriculture, and even in the 20th century, famines killed millions. Now with increased productivity we create so much food that obesity is the defining health crisis of our time.
All classes have been able afford better clothing and more food, not just those owning the means of production.
> instead of going further down the same road we're already on
Even in the last 25 years, we've seen large increases in life expectancy, child mortality fell by more than 50%, 1 billion people left extreme poverty, access to knowledge and education expanded, and more.