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I'd be happy with summarizing and aggregating of health and longevity articles/papers to have a concise digest of strategies. Case in point, I'm a big fan of A

I'd be happy with summarizing and aggregating of health and longevity articles/papers to have a concise digest of strategies. Case in point, I'm a big fan of Andrew Huberman (https://www.youtube.com/@hubermanlab https://www.youtube.com/@hubermanlab). He's quite prolific and his presentations pack a lot of data. Just taking all of that in would require a lot of time. Being able to have it condensed and indexed would be wonderful. Plenty of others like him (e.g., Rhonda Patrick, Peter Attia, etc.) High quality stuff but there's literally not enough time to take all of it in.

ke88y 3y ago
However useful his advice might be, Andrew Huberman isn't a doctor (of medicine). Summarizing academic research is almost entirely unrelated to the practice of medicine. Medical diagnosis and treatment are different from more typical uses of LLMs in lots of important ways.
- pstuart 3y ago
  Yeah, I was kind of tangential there, but it's strongly related. Health and longevity is addressed from the other side of medicine. For example, a doctor could diagnose and prescribe medicine of one's type 2 diabetes, but in many of those cases that need is removed by following healthy practices (e.g., not being fat). But back to the OP -- it seems like well-crafted LLMs could be idiot-savant helpers to guide doctors and ease their load.
- haldujai 3y ago
  > Summarizing academic research is almost entirely unrelated to the practice of medicine. Do you mean basic science research? Evaluating academic medical research is considered a core competency for physicians. https://www.royalcollege.ca/ca/en/canmeds/canmeds-framework/canmeds-role-scholar.html https://www.royalcollege.ca/ca/en/canmeds/canmeds-framework/...
  - ke88y 3y ago
    > Do you mean basic science research? No, I mean actual diagnosis and treatment. > Evaluating academic medical research is considered a core competency for physicians. But it's a very different activity from diagnosis and treatment, which look much more like sequential decision-making and hypothesis-testing than like question-answering.

ke88y 3y ago

However useful his advice might be, Andrew Huberman isn't a doctor (of medicine). Summarizing academic research is almost entirely unrelated to the practice of medicine. Medical diagnosis and treatment are different from more typical uses of LLMs in lots of important ways.

pstuart 3y ago
Yeah, I was kind of tangential there, but it's strongly related. Health and longevity is addressed from the other side of medicine. For example, a doctor could diagnose and prescribe medicine of one's type 2 diabetes, but in many of those cases that need is removed by following healthy practices (e.g., not being fat). But back to the OP -- it seems like well-crafted LLMs could be idiot-savant helpers to guide doctors and ease their load.
haldujai 3y ago
> Summarizing academic research is almost entirely unrelated to the practice of medicine. Do you mean basic science research? Evaluating academic medical research is considered a core competency for physicians. https://www.royalcollege.ca/ca/en/canmeds/canmeds-framework/canmeds-role-scholar.html https://www.royalcollege.ca/ca/en/canmeds/canmeds-framework/...
- ke88y 3y ago
  > Do you mean basic science research? No, I mean actual diagnosis and treatment. > Evaluating academic medical research is considered a core competency for physicians. But it's a very different activity from diagnosis and treatment, which look much more like sequential decision-making and hypothesis-testing than like question-answering.