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yankee_dodgeon Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post

Knowledge depreciates, so it is clarifying to add time explicitly: I thought this knowledge would set me apart...

Forever? That seems over-optimistic for all occupations in all eras.

For the rest of my working career? This really hasn't been true in a long time either, especially in software, where technology changes on the order of years.

For the duration of my mortgage? The fondest hope, but pretty much like the above.

For the next 10 years? Here is the big change. Even for fields like medicine, where knowledge really did set you apart. The AI can adapt faster. AI is inside the human OODA loop.

yankee_dodgeon A Man Who Reads Books for a Living

But the reader escaped! :-)

yankee_dodgeon A Man Who Reads Books for a Living

Robert Redford's character in _Three Days of the Condor_ gets asked what he does for a living. "I read." Has always seemed to be the ideal job. :-)

yankee_dodgeon The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients

True -- trans fat is 5-10% of beef fat [1] BUT "a lot" is not the standard when it comes to trans fat. The NEJM article makes the point that trans fat is damaging even in small quantities, like a single gram. It was a great day when trans fat was required to be listed on the Nutrition Facts Label. It spurred snack manufacturers to get it (mostly) out of their products.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6356151/

yankee_dodgeon The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients

The scariest part of this well-reasoned piece is the amount of trans fat in beef tallow. Trans fat is unbelievably destructive. A review in the New England Journal of Medicine 20 years ago [0] sent that message well. I doubt there has been any significant revision to the understanding of the physiology.

[0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra054035