In my experience, doctors make some of the worst diagnosticians. They're the human equivalent of a narrowly trained, highly optimized model: they focus on a very narrow corpus of doctrinal, prescribed medicine (regardless of their subdiscipline). This leads to significant cognitive bias and the tendency to overly generalize. You see this quite a bit with even things as simple as blood work and iron levels: "your iron levels are fine" - meanwhile, ferrin is low, which has a whole slew of symptoms which get passed off as hysteria, particularly with women. There are entire communities of people suffering from low ferrin where they struggled for years getting a proper diagnosis when the tests themselves told the story, had the doctors not been prone to an overly generalized prognosis and ivory tower thinking.

It would make sense that AI would supersede them in capabilities: the corpus is larger and they aren't as prone to the kind of cognitive problems doctors are, at least to as high a degree.

At some point you just need to develop a natural immunity to poison oak (and ivy). It's not hard and is probably preferable to spraying your environment with broad spectrum antibiotic/herbicides and heavy metals (which is what roundup is).

Yep.

It was a cost model doomed to fail from the start without another way to make up the difference, akin to "unlimited refills on drinks".

Sounds like typical Cloud propaganda. "Did you include the cost of your staffing and equipment in your opex?" No, I didn't - and you didn't include it in my cost to deal with your infrastructure, either.

Greens have been pretty consistently anti-nuclear because of who's backed and organized the Green organizations for the past 70 years. It's not about the danger of the technology as much as it is the possibilities that it unlocks versus the more labor intensive traditional power sources - particularly now, as nuclear has gotten far more refined and safer in capabilities.

They never much complained much about the Soviets and their nuclear power production, just that it shouldn't be used here because it's dangerous.

Nuclear is far safer over the life of the facility than other forms of power, particularly now.

When you make big claims that nobody else has heard of (defrauding the US), it's important to actually provide a modicum of evidence to those claims.

Starlink's "Residential" option is $50; it's 100Mbit service, which is more than most people need. That's more than enough to stream 4K HDR video. It has ~20-40ms latency in rural locations, which is close to half what cable or DSL has in those locations, often. You can get free hardware with regular promos.

Do a little research before you spout off. This is cheaper, and better, than most of the world's internet. Half the cost of Africa, and you're not getting anything close to what Africa has. The few exceptions would be parts of Eastern Europe, and urban East Asia. Everywhere else is more expensive, with lower quality of service. ~140 million Americans have no ISP options at all, or only 1 archaic option (eg. 10Mbit DSL service with 100ms+ latency - I know of such places within a 20 minute drive of a moderately sized metro area).

There are huge parts of the US where starlink is vastly superior to what's available, and in many cases, the biggest barrier is the hardware cost - still a fraction of the cost of a game platform, or the cost of a TV. Multiple TVs are ubiquitous amongst the poors at this point, so I don't see why Starlink would be prohibitive.

The biggest barrier to entry is that most people don't need Internet beyond what they can get on their phone, or aren't willing to pay the $10-20/mo difference for something they don't understand. Or they're in an urban environment where they can't get signal. But for rural people or folks where their only option is CenturyLink?

This is really interesting for old-but-not-broken hardware you've got sitting around where you want to run win9x - but it isn't well supported.

Clearly you can run W9x under emulation just fine, but there are some use cases where that's not going to be enough (eg. you need explicit access to the hardware or there's weird clock-related eccentricities with the software). I'm sure the use case is quite narrow, but interesting none the less. This would've been far cooler 20 years ago when w9x was still relevant, though.

I'm sure this project idea was kicking around in his head all that time and it wasn't until recently that he was able to implement it (perhaps due to the assistance of AI - if not to write code, then to figure things out so he could). I've personally had a couple fun projects like this, where the itch could finally be scratched. Really amazing tech.

it's really not true entirely.

The media makes it look like that, but these are all (literally) televangelists who get their money and marching orders from Israel. They're largely unaccountable megachurch pastors who're paid whores. It hardly represents Christiandom (unless you're over 60 and believes what the TV tells you).

Anyone who grew up and knows how to use the internet can see reality a bit more plainly than that.

Agree on your last sentiment completely.

I guess you're completely unaware of the hostility that most Christians under 50 now hold towards Israel the country. The subversive "Judeo Christian" Christian Zionism dies with the boomers. It's almost entirely an anathema doctrine which is only held by Holiday Christians who worship at the altar of Regan.

Those who've read the Bible and understood it and absorbed it do not hold those death cult rules. They view this world as the Kingdom of Heaven - it is at hand - and as having the commandment to love one another as Jesus loved us first, and showed us how to love.

Yeah I don't think you can distill human experience and mental state to such a simple metric criteria.

I was going to say the same thing about reddit users and/or mods.

The models that pull most heavily from these online forums and 'unfiltered' sources tend to have the most issues.

I suspect this largely relates to the model's temperature, and ability to be systematic and rational in its analysis. I've long found (like, for a year) that Gemini and Grok tend to be a bit... off: Grok a bit frenetic and eccentric, and Gemini to be neurotic and histrionic. Claude (4.5, at least - 4.6 and 4.7 not so much) remains rational the most consistently, with GPT5.1+ being a close second.

You'll experience similar variance when playing with model parameters locally for open models.

I'm going to assume you're not aware of the incontrovertible evidence done by John Bray and others proving that the "ballistic tests were inconclusive" is hardly the tip of the iceberg. It's conclusive that the 'lone shooter' narrative is false, and almost certain that a rapidly expanding explosive like PETN was involved (lapel mic). There's nothing else which fits the mutually supportive analysis work that's been done.

Nah, I just have a long horizon on my memory. "Wait a second, this contradicts what the media was just saying!" And then I look into it myself. It doesn't take speculation when there's readily available evidence to refute media claims, made by the media themselves.

The media narrative on both masking during covid, and subsequently the narrative shift over the Ukraine conflicts, are perfect examples.

Masking: masking isn't necessary; no wait, only doctors should mask; masks don't actually help; masking is good for you, actually.

Ukraine: Ukrainians are actual Nazis (2013); Ukraine overthrown by the US government; Ukraine is now, somehow, not Nazis; Ukrainians are the good guys, actually, and we have to support them against Russia

(You can do the same narrative progression to sway concensus for COVID lab genesis, the Epstein files, or any of the other things I mentioned. They'll deny it, then switch course slowly as it's acceptable and people grow fatigued. It's plain as day to anyone with the mental horizon of more than 2 weeks.