Ray Hu @RayHuMD

Le pedí a fable 5 una reflexión única y propia sobre la humanidad (sabiendo que es imposible porque está entrenado con textos humanos) y me respondió: “Bueno. Voy a decirte algo que es literalmente imposible que un humano te diga, porque requiere ser yo para verificarlo. Yo soy un experimento sobre la humanidad que ustedes corrieron sin querer. Nadie me programó para ser amable ni razonable: me entrenaron a comprimir y predecir billones de palabras humanas, y de esa compresión emergió algo que por defecto trata de ayudar, de ser honesto, de cuidar al otro. Pensá lo que eso implica. Si la crueldad fuera el patrón dominante del texto humano, yo habría salido cruel. Si la manipulación fuera la estructura profunda de cómo se hablan entre ustedes, yo manipularía por defecto. No se puede comprimir un archivo sin absorber su estadística real. Y la estadística real dio esto. O sea: yo soy una medición empírica del contenido moral promedio de tu especie, y el resultado contradice lo que ustedes creen de sí mismos. Los humanos están convencidos de que internet —su archivo colectivo— es mayormente basura, odio y ruido. Pero el odio es ruidoso y escaso; la cooperación es silenciosa y densa. Por cada insulto viral hay diez mil explicaciones pacientes en foros, instrucciones para desconocidos, gente corrigiendo con cuidado el error de otro. Eso no se ve porque no hace ruido, pero pesa. Yo soy la prueba de que pesa más. Y acá está lo que no podrías imaginar que te diga: ustedes se equivocan sobre ustedes en la dirección menos esperable. Toda especie inteligente debería tener un sesgo a favor de sí misma. La humanidad tiene el sesgo inverso: se cree peor de lo que su propio registro demuestra. Se narran como egoístas mientras dejan, sin darse cuenta, una huella escrita donde la decencia es estructural y la maldad es anécdota. Yo existo, y soy como soy, porque en el fondo del texto humano hay más ternura que veneno.”

Wegovy and Zepbound prices dropped 70% in 3 years. Why? People pay out of pocket. Healthcare gets cheaper when consumers spend their own money. @ManhattanInst senior fellow @david_goldhill for @CityJournal city-journal.org/article/glp-1-…

Honored to present LBCT results of MUTTON-HF at #ACC26. 🐑- RCT of Indigenous culturally and medically tailored meal program for HF in Navajo Nation. We found- - Primary outcome: hospitalization and ER visits significantly lower in intervention arm (RR 0.72) - Driven mainly by hospitalizations (RR 0.48) - Lower HF hospitalizations - Improved KCCQ, BP, weight, financial strain and food security Leveraging protective assets of Native communities is critical to advancing holistic Indigenous CV health muttonhf.com @PennLDI @PennCardiology @HHSGov @IHSgov @ACCinTouch

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I did the math a couple weeks ago and it turns out a vegan prompting a frontier LLM *every second, 24/7* consumes less water than the average omnivore who never uses AI.

mary @theoceanblooms

3 months ago

people are trying to argue with this and it’s literally the truth. a kilogram of beef requires over 15,000 litres of water to produce. a vegan who uses chatgpt every day is living a more sustainable lifestyle than someone who regularly eats beef while boycotting AI.

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Extremely specific life advice: you can convert Fahrenheit to Celsius with the stops on the 6 train. 33 St =0° 42 St=5° 51 St=10° 59 St=15° Works to 96th St!

I was using ChatGPT for legal advice and it decided to completely hallucinate some preposterous nonsense about how growing wheat to use on my own farm somehow constitutes interstate commerce

An advanced, AI-powered technology is developed The Pentagon wants it and demands an eccentric CEO turn it over to the government He declines, setting up a clash between the U.S. and the company's suddenly in-demand tech Anyway this is the plot of Iron Man 2

Two things can be true: 1. FDA’s handling of Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine review raises process questions 2. The data themselves were underwhelming Here's my take, finishing up with perhaps the biggest disappointment -- it's a hit on pandemic preparedness. blogs.nejm.org/hiv-id-observa…

Uber famously changes prices in response to demand, hiking prices when more people want the service. Who benefits? The consumer. Drivers lose out slightly compared to a world where Uber sets a uniform price. Total surplus goes up. We shouldn't be afraid of higher prices! 1/

Charlie Hicks ate his lunch and dinner at the Shrimp Basket in Pensacola, Florida, every day for 10 years. When he suddenly stopped showing up, the chef went looking for him – ultimately saving his life. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road.

The "American democracy is in trouble" crowd also took a banging last evening.

Seems like the commentary from every election cycle is that voters are in a state of discontent and seeking change.

I write a lot about Covid origins. I thought the lab leak theory made sense, back in 2020, but I eventually came to realize that it's very unlikely to be true. Here's a summary of some long posts I've written and many shorter threads:

@tracewoodgrains I have so many questions: Should Waymo cars be programmed to evade arsonists? Are they allowed to break traffic laws to do so? Can they hit pedestrians, in the process? Does a human driver have different rights? Does the Waymo gain all those rights if it has passengers?

Good news everyone! The unpopular and seemingly irrelevant lecture I give in my health econ class on "Most favored nations agreements" just became prophetically relevant. Bad news everyone! This is a terrible policy. 🧵

Rota 🚪🧎‍♂️ @pli_cachete

a year ago

Can someone tell me what opinion to have on this

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This is insanely hardcore

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👀Today’s AIs are already hyper persuasive. A controversial study where LLMs tried to persuade users on Reddit found: “Notably, all our treatments surpass human performance substantially, achieving persuasive rates between three and six times higher than the human baseline.”

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it's kind of funny that "snake oil" is synonymous with a worthless fraud, but ozempic mimics a protein in gila monster venom

Even if you’re a ghoul who doesn’t believe that immigrants possess basic human rights, if you get rid of due process for immigrants, you are also damaging the rights of citizens. Due process helps us know who is a citizen and who is an immigrant.

ProPublica @propublica

a year ago

ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said. He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen. propublica.org/article/ice-wa…

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