Gaywallet

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

if doctors actually pay attention to what they’re sending out instead of using it as a “make patient go away” button.

Less than 20% of doctors used what the AI generated and instead wrote something themselves. It does not sound like any of these doctors were using it as a “make patient go away” button and they seem to be taking their messaging seriously if they rejected the vast majority of suggestions. However, importantly, their cognitive burden was decreased - indicating that the AI helped jump start their thoughts in the same way that someone handing you a draft novel makes writing a novel easier.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

A potential problem at many places, I’m sure. But of all places, Stanford is one that’s likely to have less of this issue than others. Stanford has plenty of world renown doctors and when you’re world renown you get a lot more pay and a lot more leeway to work how you want to.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Less than 20% of doctors using it doesn’t say anything about how those 20% of doctors used it. The fact 80% of doctors didn’t use it says a great deal about what the majority of doctors think about how appropriate it is to use for patient communication.

So to be clear, less than 20% used what the AI generated directly. There’s no stats on whether the clinicians copy/pasted parts of it, rewrote the same info but in different words, or otherwise corrected what was presented. The vast majority of clinicians said it was useful. I’d recommend checking out the open access article, it goes into a lot of this detail. I think they did a great job in terms of making sure it was a useful product before even piloting it. They also go into a lot of detail on the ethical framework they were using to evaluate how useful and ethical it was.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

Finally picked up ghost of tsushima and started playing through it. Reminds me of RDR2

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

As a community, can we please stop this behavior? This isn’t an article, but even if it was an article, rushing to be the first person to leave a “gotcha”-style message doesn’t encourage a conversation. If you have an issue with a headline, it takes a trivial amount of time to explain what, specifically about the headline could be improved or wording that is more relevant to content that the author is presenting. You can also easily start a conversation about why sensationalizing the headline is damaging to individuals. By just pointing at wikipedia, or an xkcd, or leaving a comment like this, we’re encouraging reddit and twitter style vapid interactions which consist of who can make the best joke or flame the person who posted it the quickest.

This doesn’t promote a nice environment, when every article is met with “LAW OF HEADLINES, NO”. It’s exhausting to see. In most cases the person sharing the article isn’t who wrote the article, so they aren’t actually in control of writing it. Yes, they can choose new words to put into their post, but this platform auto-populates most links with the headline from the article, making it trivially easy to just hit submit. Focusing on the headline draws attention away from the article itself and any useful or fruitful discussion that can happen as a result of discussing the content, rather than the often <.05% of the content of the article that the headline constitutes.

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

To be clear this was not meant as a criticism of you, specifically. I’m simply asking that we collectively stop this kind of behavior in general on this instance, for the reasons I outlined. If there is still a desire to criticize, that we do so in a way that is not simply stating the ‘law of headlines; no’, as that’s something that I’ve seen happen on Beehaw dozens of times.

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

Could the low effort comments, indicate a criticism of the article selection itself?

If we create a culture in which those who are upset about “question headline article” enter these threads to vent their frustration through low effort comments, it’s not necessarily a criticism so much as it is a culture we’ve created. Think about what kind of content does well on Reddit or Twitter - often times people are engaging in a way because they know the community will respond in a way and they’re looking for that particular kind of validation or engagement.

We need to take a step back from time to time and think about what we’re encouraging and whether that’s helpful. If you are uninterested in interacting with “question headline article” than simply don’t. If many people share your opinion and don’t want to interact with these threads, they’ll die off and not get engagement and discussion whereas articles which don’t suffer from the same problem will have active and healthy discussions.

Not every discussion is for you, and that’s okay, but engaging with content in a way that can be easily seen as negative is generally not helpful. In fact, it’s a lot worse than “not helpful” - we talk quite a bit about how we want to have an explicitly nice space and how nice spaces evaporate quickly in the face of behavior like this. There’s a good deal of nice people who don’t like being told “law of headlines, no” and will quickly leave the space if that’s the kind of engagement they see. In order to encourage these kinds of people to stick around, we need to be careful about when we choose to criticize them.

I understand that you care a lot about whether a headline is reflective of the content and are triggered easily by headlines which are clickbait-y. But this isn’t a sentiment shared by everyone and some of the people who don’t share that sentiment are great people with lots to offer to this community. They may simply not have the time or the energy to correct what the author did, and are simply excited or happy to share an article they found interesting and aren’t as easily triggered by poor quality headlines. They might be doing so because they’re particularly interested in some insights and want to share in the joy of those insights with others. Or they may want to spur a discussion on which is elaborated upon within the article. The hyperfocus on the title and how it’s presented and leaving an ultimately negative comment which discourages discussion and can leave the poster disheartened is not helpful to creating a nice environment.

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

You can also very easily run the bridges yourself if you don’t trust them. I do so in my homelab, it was 10 minutes of work setting it all up. Super stable, and e2e from my side.

Do you have a guide or list of links?

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

ah shoot just realized this is a duplicate of another post! Removing

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

This is an oversimplification of processes that happen during sleep. This has to do with fat metabolism in brain cells mediated through the effect of specific gene variants.

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

If we ignore the costs, wouldn’t it be mostly a game of probabilities? If that’s the case it would be a matter of repeating the treatment often enough to reduce the probability of the virus returning to effectively 0.

Yes, but a game of probabilities can mean that the management of a chronic condition becomes easier. It takes a certain amount of time for HIV to activate into AIDS. Modern management of HIV is a daily medication where dosage has a lot to do with what state you catch HIV in. With something like this, even if we cannot completely remove HIV from the person’s system, we may be able to reverse it to a state where it can be managed by the existing immune system and eliminated/cured, or at the very least can reduce how much of the medication one needs to be taking to keep things in check.

To patients treatments like this might mean that in the future they may simply need to take a single pill or injection or undergo a minor procedure (such as an implant) much less often than once per day. This could greatly reduce the anxiety that one might experience around the question of whether they took their medication that day, or even remove the burden of having to refill/take a medication daily because it is instead an injection or procedure or implant.

We are, of course, a LONG way from this being possible as human application of CRISPR is extremely limited and extremely expensive (we’ve cured sickle cell anemia in several humans now, with costs of the procedure in the millions) at this point in time, but it’s also amazing that we’ve even done that given how new CRISPR is.

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

One of the most promising uses of CRISPR that’s being investigated right now is it’s use to combat climate change by modifying plants to sequester carbon.

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to respond to “demeaning and dismissive” statements by being “demeaning and dismissive.” We’re big fans of the paradox of intolerance around here. It’s not the job of the interviewer to “think about things differently”. Lemon isn’t Musk’s therapist. Lemon isn’t obligated to do the heavy lifting of emotional labor for Musk.

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

They’re the people who never would have touched it, because it was too technical, had too high a barrier of entry, and saw it as niche.

Yup, if anyone wants to “replace” these platforms, they need to make them very approachable to tech naive individuals. Most people have close to no technical skills, and nearly everyone on federated software seems to fail to recognize this.

Ultimately I am in agreement that we shouldn’t be trying to drop a replacement to these platforms directly in. We should be offering an alternative, something fundamentally different, because those platforms have failed to fulfill our desires and needs from social media on the internet.

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

I don’t want to discount the findings too harshly, because I believe that democrats have a ton of issues with their voters in general and can only go on promising everything but delivering nothing for so long before people wisen up, but I do want to just gently remind everyone how accurate polling was in the 2016 and 2020 election cycles and its general decline among the population as a way to understand how people vote. Polling groups have not adapted to the times and frequently demand far too much out of a population which is overburdened and simply not interested in engaging with pollsters through archaic mediums and conventional means of identifying who is eligible to be polled are not applicable to a modern populace.

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

oh hungry music, those three boys put out some great music

if you ever get a chance to see worakls live, I highly recommend it - he’s a great showman

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

Direct link to journal article

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

Well stated. Once again, thank you for all the hard work you do around here!

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

The headline is 6 words. The article is 3,606 words. Expressed as a percentage, the amount of content you have decided to address comes to a grand total of 0.16%.

If you have no interest in interacting with the content, it would be simple enough to state that. But to dismiss the entirety of the article based on 0.16% of the content seems rather short sighted to me. Do you have any thoughts to share about the article?

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

That’s more like it, this is a discussion that people can actually interact with! I am not the author, and I agree with you that the title isn’t great, but I am interested in discussing what they wrote and appreciate that you’ve now at least opened the door to a discussion on clickbait titles rather than just leaving a one sentence “gotcha”.

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

No mention of gab, the “uncensored and unbiased AI”?

Gaywallet, 3 months ago

If you haven’t looked into used office furniture stores near you, I would highly suggest it. Depending on where you live you could get anywhere from 40 to 80% off, and big name $1k retail chairs are built to last 10+ years and are often lightly refurbished at these stores (and they usually can order parts and do repairs in shop)

Gaywallet, 4 months ago

Our one rule here is to be nice. Calling someone a dumbass is not nice. Be better.

Gaywallet, 4 months ago

Fantastic article highlighting the issue. Thanks!

Gaywallet, 4 months ago

Stop arguing about what slurs are okay to use. The only rule around here is to be nice. If someone asks you to not use a word because it hurts them, the nice thing to do is to listen.

Gaywallet, 4 months ago

Wow, what a constructive and useful comment. Thank you for contributing 💜💜

Gaywallet, 4 months ago

Often times they are laid off, with a generous multimillion severance package

Gaywallet, 4 months ago

Insulting people isn’t nice. The only rule on this understand is to be(e) nice. This is not appropriate behavior for our instance. You didn’t need to insult someone to make your point. I’m giving you a 7 day ban to think things over.

Gaywallet, 4 months ago

Very approachable article for people who don’t have experience with the fediverse. Thanks!

Gaywallet, 4 months ago

It appears to have been lazy reporting. Didn’t happen

Gaywallet, 4 months ago

I think the most interesting finding in this study is the following:

The models also suffered from “contra-factual bias": They were likely to believe a false premise embedded in a user’s question, acting in a “sycophantic” way to reinforce the user’s mistake.

Which when you think about how language models work, makes a lot of sense. It’s drawing upon trained data sets that match the question being asked. It’s easy to lead it to respond a certain way, because people who talk pro/con certain issues will often use specific kinds of language (such as dog whistles in political issues).

Gaywallet, 4 months ago

One thing though: Criticism of admins should never be considered a rule breaking event provided it is not derogative or endangering, and if my reply to you is considered a reason for admin action then I need to reconsider my participation in beehaw as well.

Wanting to block an admin isn’t criticism. You’re free to criticize us, and in fact, encouraged to do so if we are warranting criticism. If you were able to block us, we wouldn’t be able to tell you when you are breaking the rules or provide feedback based on reports of your comments. We can’t run a space like this without giving this kind of feedback to members, and just like what happened in this case, we try to give this feedback before jumping to moderator actions like banning.

Gaywallet, 4 months ago

Let me be clear: The ONLY site I have ever been banned from was reddit for posting ‘Punching nazis is a moral good’, and please tell me now if this is a violation here and I will just delete my account and leave.

Punching nazis is most definitely a moral good. We’ve outlined this (intolerance towards the intolerant) in our docs.

Gaywallet, 5 months ago

Yikes, thanks so much for these links. I’ve avoided kagi for awhile now for lack of need but it had been top of list of ‘things I should try’. Guess I can strike that one out now.