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.
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AI Coding Tools: Replit Outperforms Claude, Codex, Cursor
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not a coder at all. tried using a combo of claude code / codex / cursor and all the issues took way longer to fix than expected. that Replit just does it all is awesome.
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Replit Agent 3 Builds Website in Three Hours
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I used @Replit Agent 3 to whip up a website for not boring dot com. I probably did ~10 minutes of total prompting and checking; it did ~3 hours. Particularly like this scratchpad, where I can drop notes and links and move them around the board.