I believe that most of the big problems left to solve need to be solved with hardware + software. But occasionally, regulation and societal shifts present the opportunity for software to solve really big problems. Healthcare is one. It is an incentive problem. It's breaking
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Healthcare System Incentives Critical for Gene Editing Drug Adoption
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A few months ago, @patrickc made the point that in order to take advantage of gene editing drugs, we need to change the incentives of the healthcare system. This is true for all sorts of modern scientific miracles, from cancer screens to GLP-1s.
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Thatch: Curing American healthcare through incentives and choice
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Thatch: Curing American healthcare through incentives and choice
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ICHRA: Shifting US Healthcare from Employer Plans to Individual Choice
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The American healthcare system seems hopelessly broken. It is not. Just as a small quirk in the tax code shifted retirement plans from pensions to 401(k)s, ICHRA can shift insurance from employee-sponsored to individual choice. A Deep Dive on healthcare, ICHRA, & Thatch:
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Expertise in AI: Should Expert Opinions Be Overweighted?
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the counter to this would be that AI will have a dramatic impact and only a small number of people really understand how it works deeply so we should overweight their opinions, but i just find it interesting.
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AI Researchers’ Growing Authority in Public Discourse
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Something I've noticed is that we take the word of AI researchers very seriously, like much more seriously than we would have taken them 4 years ago if they were a staff engineer or academic somewhere. They are 1000x smarter than me, so this isn't a knock, just an observation
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ChatGPT Daily Tasks Deliver Poor Results Despite Pulse Updates
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Like it’s hard to get excited by Pulse when the couple of daily things I’ve asked ChatGPT to do deliver completely dogshit results every morning at 6am sharp
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Big Labs Still Nowhere Near AGI, Says Skeptic
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I’ll happily eat my words if I’m wrong, but you can’t look at anything the big labs are rolling out and really believe “oh yeah these guys are just a couple OOMS away from birthing god.”
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Electric Stack AMA with Noah Smith and Tech Experts
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LIVE on Reddit for an AMA on the Electric Stack with @Noahpinion
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US Healthcare System Problems: A Critical Overview
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Doing a little research on US healthcare and I don't know if anyone realizes this but it's not good.