engeljohnb

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by engeljohnb 7d ago
Do you think there's no difference in material outcomes when a company faces consequences of a specific human nurse being negligent vs an AI hallucinating?
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by engeljohnb 7d ago
Since AI can't be held liable for mistakes, it's immaterial whether the AI makes fewer mistakes than humans.
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by engeljohnb 7d ago
I know this is just an example, but I'm going to say this every time the subject comes up: since human lives are the cost of making the wrong decisions, AI can't be allowed to be a decision maker of any kind in healthcare. If my b
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by engeljohnb 1mo ago
What does "normalize" mean here? I don't think consumers have to do anything in this situation. If a business model isn't making enough money, it's on the business to change. If someday Google puts Youtube behind a
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by engeljohnb 2mo ago
People are frequently "straight up disrespectful" to me in my work. I have to maintain professionalism and composure at all times, and if I were to suggest otherwise I'd get laughed at best. I don't see why it's har
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by engeljohnb 2mo ago
The Linux Kernel is also a hobby project completely supported by the charity of others.
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by engeljohnb 2mo ago
I'm not denying they exist, I'm saying a society that values liberty shouldn't enforce them by law.
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by engeljohnb 2mo ago
I'm a male healthcare worker (cardiac sonographer), and even though there are a lot more women, there were never any barriers for me because of my gender. If there's a shortage, it's because employers need to pay more, same a
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by engeljohnb 2mo ago
> The law is just as much about enforcing social mores and norms This shouldn't be the case in a society that supposedly values liberty.
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by engeljohnb 3mo ago
I'm a healthcare worker, so I'm not immersed in this world at all. I can only speak as person who has to use the oven, but doesn't get to pick which oven is purchased. My bosses don't buy the ovens that are the most depe
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by engeljohnb 3mo ago
I replayed Luigi's Mansion during a long flight the other day, and my wife looked over my shoulder and went "That game looks cool. Is it new?" This is exactly why Nintendo games tend to have strong legacies. Everyone back the
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by engeljohnb 3mo ago
That's the balance I'm finding it very hard to strike when talking to my family about doctors. Everyone is either a "all doctors are scams" QAnon type, or they blindly trust everything their doctor says, no matter how fi
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by engeljohnb 3mo ago
> But how do you do it in a way that it isn’t a burden on the parents You make it a burden on the parents, like all parenting always has been. In my opinion, US culture losing sight of this is part of why our country is spinning down the
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by engeljohnb 3mo ago
A second opinion is a smart move if one has doubts about their diagnosis. Doctors make mistakes, and even though I've worked with countless great doctors, I've never worked a job where there wasn't at least one who was undisc
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by engeljohnb 3mo ago
I don't completely understand what you mean, but I can tell you for my job, having AI tell you how to get the images is (without exaggeration) like putting someone who's never played an instrument on stage and saying "don&#x2
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by engeljohnb 3mo ago
> I'm a radiologist Any comment that doesn't start with this or similar qulaification should be taken with a grain of salt (yes, including this one). Medical imaging is one of those things everyone thinks is simple because they
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by engeljohnb 3mo ago
I'm a traveling healthcare worker, which means every 3 months is both a new contract for work and a new lease for a rental to stay at. So if I'm not willing to complete several hours of training modules uncompensated and before th
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by engeljohnb 3mo ago
You're right, it would've been better to say "at least far as my experience in the US."
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by engeljohnb 3mo ago
Rentals are exactly what I was talking about. Supposedly you can always go to someone else, but we all know in practice we can't just go without housing and if everyone decides you're "difficult," you're SOL. Earlie
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by engeljohnb 3mo ago
I'm glad it all worked out for this individual. I hope more people live their lives like this as the dystopia progresses. Unfortunately, especially in the US, exercising your rights, or even just reading every paper you're expecte
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by engeljohnb 3mo ago
If the world flipped a switch tomorrow and now all advertising is independent creators asking fans to donate to their patreon, I would be ecstatic. It's so much less annoying, intrusive, and generally dystopian than the world's la
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by engeljohnb 4mo ago
That's true, but I have limited capacity to use my voice to enact material change in the world. Some people put their efforts towards changes that will reduce the most suffering for the most people. Others enact change that will most i
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by engeljohnb 4mo ago
I agree. That's why I was careful to mention that I'm still trying to stay informed about things I think will actually affect me personally. If the only thing that changes from me reading headlines is my emotional state and not my
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by engeljohnb 4mo ago
Fair enough, though my experience is that AI is much more prone to rambling than my colleagues are.
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by engeljohnb 4mo ago
I think being constantly outraged over stuff happening to no one I personally know for twenty years that will never affect my daily life has become too exhausting for me to keep it up, and I'm not convinced my learning about it is help
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by engeljohnb 4mo ago
Do you find talking to an AI with your colleagues as a middleman faster than talking to your colleagues?
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by engeljohnb 4mo ago
Okay, didn't mean to come out swinging, just a habit on internet forums anymore I guess. To try to discuss more productively: I already thought Monet was overrated, and this was a long-held and considered opinion, not just a knee-jerk
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by engeljohnb 4mo ago
It's a good thing then that I'm not concerned about how interesting my perspective is to you.
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by engeljohnb 4mo ago
> It proves that people don't actually know what they like about "art" or even why they think some art is good, and some is bad. That's because those are famously difficult questions to answer.
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by engeljohnb 4mo ago
I remember this old episode of Doctor Who where the Doctor scoffs at a postcard with the Mona Lisa on it and derides souless "art made by computers." As a digital artist, of course I rolled my eyes at the time, but these days I ju

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