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Claude convinced me to take a very important medication, without Claude I would not have had the balls to take it (because of the potential side-effects) and it

by rvnx 1y ago

Claude convinced me to take a very important medication, without Claude I would not have had the balls to take it (because of the potential side-effects) and it showed me all the possible medications, and the benefits/risk balance between this and being untreated. At the end, went to doctor, offered me the same choices. No regrets so far. Without it, I would suffer for nothing. It is a very good tool to investigate and discover things, could be also the opposite: seen a bit unproductive that it is censored, because doctors are mostly here for validation anyway for serious things.

sgt101 1y ago
You are a sensible person and took professional advice. Other people are not sensible - look at all the junkies shooting who knows what into who knows where. A system that can advise cooks to put glue on pizza is probably not the best mechanism for providing healthcare advice to at least the section of the population who are likely to try it.
- rvnx 1y ago
  I fully agree with you. It is an interesting tool, but to consider carefully, like you wouldn’t trust 100% what is written on the internet.
- alwa 1y ago
  Would you suppose said junkies would be taking advice from a qualified medical professional otherwise? For that matter, would you suppose that they don’t know what they’re doing is bad for them? Witness the smokers who crack jokes about “cancer sticks” as they light up. It seems to me that, just as we all promise our dentists we floss every day and our doctors that we promise we’ll eat better, we might be more prone to be frank with “anonymous” chatbots—and thus get more frank advice in return, at least for clear-cut factual background and tradeoffs.
  - sgt101 1y ago
    I totally agree if the chatbots are actually reliable and controllable. LLMs have real problems with both of those things, they are unreliable in the sense that they produce text with factual inaccuracies and they are uncontrollable in that it's really hard to predict their behaviour from their past behaviour. Big open challenges in AI - I am sure that there will be solutions, but there aren't right now. I think it's very like self driving cars. Implementing a demo and showing it on the road is one thing, but then it takes twenty years before the slow roll out really gets underway.
- squishington 1y ago
  People with addictions don't act sensibly because they have unresolved trauma. To dismiss this as simply being unsensible is extremely ignorant, and pretty typical of a lot the conversation I see on HN. Most of us on here have the privilege of being functional enough to make money in tech, because we don't have that level of untreated trauma. Have some humanity.
intended 1y ago
LLMs have convinced people with schizophrenia to not take their medication. It’s been a supportive wingman for people in manic states. I’ve reduced usage of journaling GPTs I created myself, despite having gained incredible utility from them.

by rvnx 1y ago

sgt101 1y ago

You are a sensible person and took professional advice. Other people are not sensible - look at all the junkies shooting who knows what into who knows where. A system that can advise cooks to put glue on pizza is probably not the best mechanism for providing healthcare advice to at least the section of the population who are likely to try it.

rvnx 1y ago
I fully agree with you. It is an interesting tool, but to consider carefully, like you wouldn’t trust 100% what is written on the internet.
alwa 1y ago
Would you suppose said junkies would be taking advice from a qualified medical professional otherwise? For that matter, would you suppose that they don’t know what they’re doing is bad for them? Witness the smokers who crack jokes about “cancer sticks” as they light up. It seems to me that, just as we all promise our dentists we floss every day and our doctors that we promise we’ll eat better, we might be more prone to be frank with “anonymous” chatbots—and thus get more frank advice in return, at least for clear-cut factual background and tradeoffs.
- sgt101 1y ago
  I totally agree if the chatbots are actually reliable and controllable. LLMs have real problems with both of those things, they are unreliable in the sense that they produce text with factual inaccuracies and they are uncontrollable in that it's really hard to predict their behaviour from their past behaviour. Big open challenges in AI - I am sure that there will be solutions, but there aren't right now. I think it's very like self driving cars. Implementing a demo and showing it on the road is one thing, but then it takes twenty years before the slow roll out really gets underway.
squishington 1y ago
People with addictions don't act sensibly because they have unresolved trauma. To dismiss this as simply being unsensible is extremely ignorant, and pretty typical of a lot the conversation I see on HN. Most of us on here have the privilege of being functional enough to make money in tech, because we don't have that level of untreated trauma. Have some humanity.

intended 1y ago

LLMs have convinced people with schizophrenia to not take their medication. It’s been a supportive wingman for people in manic states. I’ve reduced usage of journaling GPTs I created myself, despite having gained incredible utility from them.