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Domain specific knowledge would help. Find a vet that landed on their feet and ask what worked. Talk to a few people inside the VA and figure out what makes cla
by johngalt 12y ago
Domain specific knowledge would help. Find a vet that landed on their feet and ask what worked. Talk to a few people inside the VA and figure out what makes claims go faster vs slower. There are businesses that exist today where their sole revenue stream is providing accurate and up to date court forms.
To think that technology can't help the poor or unskilled is ignorant of history. The assembly line was a means to use unskilled labor to produce a skilled piece of work. Same reason you can have bankers who can't calculate an amortization by hand.
Articles like this one paint the situation as a moral imperative, but its actually an opportunity. If you can design a tool to make people at the margins more valuable or competitive, you'll be able to capture some of that value as well.
- chillingeffect 12y agoI feel you're dead-on about domain-specific knowledge. An effect of hyper-capital (not a problem with moderate capitalism) is that everyone gets hyper-specialized. No one experiences the Veteran's Administration until... they're in it with brain damage and can't write code for it. But I would bet that any who regularly reads this website could hang out in the V.A. as an intern for 30 days and add at least $100,000 worth of annual value. Even if it was just improving paperwork - machine learning for diagnoses - delivering education - encouraging exercise. These problems are unexotic at first glance, b/c our society's values are so crazily skewed. > Articles like this one paint the situation as a moral imperative, but its actually an opportunity. I guess the author failed in this regard, b/c I read it as trying to show how it's an opportunity, although the article itself lacked your insight about domain-specific knowledge.