Gatsky

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by Gatsky 7y ago
Hmm... 40% of irreproducibility is due to fraud? Who in their right mind would put in all the effort that science requires if they think everyone else's work is commonly malicious bullshit? Obviously this survey is biased towards peopl
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by Gatsky 7y ago
The ecological history of the earth shows there have been dramatic changes in climate before. It is speculated/strongly believed that some of these changes had a strong contribution from organic life eg plants and trees affecting weath
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by Gatsky 7y ago
So many mistakes here in both concept and execution. That conversation with the Psychiatrist is bizarre, and must have been embellished for a good story. I think what 'Susan' is actually trying to say is that the incremental benef
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Reminds me of this: https://userweb.cs.txstate.edu/~br02/cs1428/ShortStoryForEng...
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FDA crackdown on flavoured vape products(theverge.com)
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by Gatsky 7y ago
I spied a positive comment about R in there!
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Are you seriously talking about the China of today? This critique belongs in the 1980s. You can't ignore demographics, just look where the population is. I think it is very hard for us outside of Hong Kong to understand the problem. Sp
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Perhaps not an entirely fair comment... Is 'Gone Girl' a politically loaded choice?
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by Gatsky 7y ago
What you are saying sounds reasonable, but I still feel very strongly that prevention is the key. Consider that prostate and breast cancer are extremely common, occurring in 1 in 6 men and 1 in 7 women respectively in Western countries. As
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by Gatsky 7y ago
There are specific examples for high prevalence conditions as you cite, but the original comment was not talking about that, it was talking about a broader approach. Even taking your example, getting to the point of removing a pre-invasive
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Yes, taking responsibility is primarily the function of a doctor. This is actually a very unique and rare thing. Everywhere else we see people minimising their responsibility to others, rather than actively taking it on board. Ceding this r
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Those criticisms aside, if this system went up against the current status quo in a prospective study, there is a reasonable chance it would be on par at least with humans. Whether that makes it a worthwhile endeavour comes down to questions
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by Gatsky 7y ago
I don't know anywhere that has a surfeit of radiologists just sitting around chewing gum. The types of tools described in the paper will enter the market as radiologist assisting devices, if for no other reason that the regulatory burd
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by Gatsky 7y ago
I'm interested to know why you have this negative view of medicine. I'm also interested in why you think the alternate future where medicine is automated (assuming that is possible and/or desirable to most people) is likely t
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by Gatsky 7y ago
This is the wrong idea. Detecting pathology early and then treating it is going to be complicated and expensive, and available to only a few people for a long time. We don't actually want some kind of constant AI body surveillance (for
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Indeed. Nothing will save you if you have the wrong idea.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Thank you for all your work, which must largely be a thankless task.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
We are losing the thread here. We are talking about substance abuse disorders. You were arguing that many people are addicted to alcohol as a 'whatabout' counter argument to my point about smoking. The articles I referenced show t
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by Gatsky 7y ago
I didn't mean to say it was an accident, but at the same time surely you aren't claiming it was an inevitability?
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Another post: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/27/why-we-sle... Now that looks quite bad.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
In the next 20 years, maybe. In the longer term, probably.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
My point is that there are usually quite specific conditions and money flows leading to very good compensation for certain jobs, rather than a 'force' like 'Technology' which seems a bit magical to me. An example is when
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Yeah, my point is that software engineering may end up becoming just exactly the things you have listed without the writing code parts... and that is probably going to annoy a lot of software engineers, not to mention the fact that other ty
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by Gatsky 7y ago
This is a bit hand wavy... isn’t current comp due to a handful of tech companies that became very profitable very quickly, and a lot of venture capital money? Without either of these two factors I doubt wages would be at the same level.
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Not sure about your analogy. Doctors do many things apart from ‘identify disease and treat symptoms’. More importantly, doctors like to do the other things they do eg counselling patients, bedside manner, shared decision making, working in
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by Gatsky 7y ago
If you don’t understand the difference then read these two articles: https://ourworldindata.org/smoking https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption
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by Gatsky 7y ago
Glad someone posted this. This book gets so much praise. But like any popsci book, there are huge incentives for the author to exaggerate and manipulate to produce a clear and marketable message. Just consider that if there was no interesti
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by Gatsky 7y ago
I don't buy this analogy with drinking. Alcohol is fundamentally different. It is critical to reduce the number of people who get addicted to nicotine, because it is very difficult to get them off it. Despite flaunting the age limit fo
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by Gatsky 7y ago
This is a ban on sale, ie a ban on commercial entities profiting from selling or producing tobacco products to <21 year olds. Since when do we need to protect the right to buy cigarettes in a convenient fashion? Last time I checked there
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by Gatsky 7y ago
The harmful health effects of tobacco products, which are a cost born by society while tobacco companies enrich themselves, mean that we can tolerate significant downsides of changes in tobacco accessibility, and it’s still very much worth

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