firejake308

I believe it does

You see, if Americans had the same value for "not being a nuisance" as the Japanese, then you could pack us like sardines in a can, and we'd all get along fine. "Changing the character of the neighborhood" is an actual concern that real people have, and trucking over them to build more housing will probably just cause another wave of white flight. Ideally, Americans would value respect over freedom, but I think the right to do whatever you want is too deeply ingrained in our culture at this point.

Skimming the article quickly, I couldn't understand where the "ground truth" comes from in their algorithm. You have 10-15 phones within 10 km of each other, and each one pings the GPS satellite to get it's approximate position, sure, but then how do you go from there to the corrected locations?

The problem is that if the economy is structured in a way that maximizes efficiency (as most economists/politicians generally argue it should be), then everyone should be forced to use specialist childcare, even if they don't want to, because they could produce more money/value for society by specializing in literally anything else.

I think that the ruthless pursuit of efficiency destroys a lot of what makes us human.

The problem is that the incentive doesn't work. Low-income folks have more children than high-income folks, even though they're the ones who are more adversely affected by childcare costs (larger percentage of budget). If disincentivizing having children through high childcare doesn't work, then we should accept that people will have as many kids as they want to, make things easier for the people who are already alive, and find other ways to manage overpopulation (easy access to contraception being the most effective and humane)

Someone remind me, what's that joke about the economist who pays his friend to consume excrement and claims the GDP has increased?

I normally frown when people suggest that tech will fix medicine, but I actually believe it for the singular use case of triaging whether or not a problem needs medical attention. The biggest barrier is that the false negative is a very dangerous situation (i.e., telling a patient it can wait when it's actually emergent), so no tech company with a functioing legal department will want to take on that liability.

So for now, the second best solution is the "doc-in-a-box"/urgent care outfit that doesn't have all the expensive machines and can therefore charge less, or you can see an NP/PA who can charge less because they have less formal education.

It's easy enough to justify if you are in the group of people that can get it faster.

I agree with removing undergrad but not residency. The things I learned in undergrad are largely useless. However, residency is important because it allows freshly minted doctors to practice under some degree of supervision for the first 3-7 years of seeing patients. The gradual increase in autonomy during residency is important, and it's my main gripe with the PA system that makes no distinction between a PA fresh out of school and one that's been practicing for 30 years.

> surgeons... are doing work that is extremely challenging and realistically only a tiny amount of people are able to do

As a medical student, I'd like to dispel this myth. The surgeons tell us all the time that they could teach a monkey to do surgery. What matters is putting in the 10,000 hours if takes to become proficient at surgery, and not everyone has the time/resources/opportunity to get that training. However, I believe that almosy anyone taken from the streets and given 10,000 hours of training could become a world-class surgeon

Yeah, but it makes a lot more sense to just incorporate that into the medical school curriculum than to make students sit through 4 years of Chemistry classes and hope that the dance class they took to fulfill the university core curriculum will erase all of their intrinsic biases

Yeah, even for my simplest projects, like single-file scripts directly modifying HTML, I'll use `tsc` to compile .ts into .js, just so that I can get better IntelliSense while I'm working

Is this a joke? Or...

I think this is a poor analogy. The better comparison would be if people were buying my apples and extracting the seeds to plant their own trees, then selling their own apples at a lower price than me and putting me out of business.

For example, I don't read Medium articles as often as I used to, in part because I can just ask my programming questions directly to ChatGPT. Granted, this is to be expected because ChatGPT can customize it's response based on my unique situation whereas the Medium article is fixed, but it's still unfair to the author of the Medium article that ChatGPT was trained on, because without their effort, none of this would have been possible. And yet, because I am no longer generating as revenue for Medium, the original authors are no longer being compensated for the value they provided me.

I personally believe that LLM hosts should be required to pay for training data. With RAG, I think it makes sense to charge per-query, but for base models, content authors would probably need to organize into larger groups to facilitate payment.

> without some kind of editorial oversight imposed from above nothing coherent nor useful will be produced.

True, but academic publishers charge an absurd amount of money in return for very little value. The publisher provides a platform for "editorial oversight" by peer reviewers, but they do not pay the peer reviewers. I would argue that "editorial oversight" in the form of peer review may be worth thousands of dollars per publication, simply providing a platform for that review and profiting from volunteer work should not be compensated as highly as it is right now.

Actually, the Google result is not incorrect. In radiology, an X-ray of a patient with ankylosing spondylitis is said to display the "bamboo sign", a real medical term describing the appearance of the backbones. Google is showing the result that is more relevant to thousands of medical students (such as myself) who are trying to understand a radiology report, but that may not be relevant to someone who just wants a sign made out of bamboo