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It’s time to stop taking any CEO at their word.

Edit: scratch that, the time to stop taking any CEO at their word was 100 years ago.

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The best time was 100 years ago. The second-best time is now.

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Hear hear!

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We should never have taken them at their word.

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Not just CEOs… basically everyone.

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We should be taking them with the rope…

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We should take CEOs with fava beans and a nice bottle of chianti.

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ehh as much as everybody loves this sentiment… at the end of the day, those days are over. going that route, you get Syria type shit.

violence at this point is a red herring. there are ways to engage tho but it requires people to take personal responsibility improve their lives and show solidarity with like minded people and the under class. if critical mass ever hits this, things can change.

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It’s time to take CEO’s money away!

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The word is it’s time to take the CEOs away

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I think the quote that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” is a bit older, and said about all the lessons of history before it.

Somehow humanity doesn’t like the wisest rules out there. And prefers to read Palanick and talk about post-modernism instead of looking at the root.

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The easiest way to stop him is to walk up to him and whisper into his ear “end computer similation” and he will just disappear.

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I bet in 10 years my insurance plan will no longer cover imaging being interpereted by a radiologist.

That’s a very sharp prediction, thanks. I will run that by some people.

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Considering how fractured medical billing is these days, often the techs contracted by your in-network doctors office are actually out-of-network.

Isn’t medical billing fun?

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Surprise Medical Billing has mostly been nerfed after the No Surprises Act here in the US. After 2022, so long as you went to an INN provider, then you can’t be charged OON pricing for any OON services that you may have encountered during that visit.

Source: https://www.health.state.mn.us/facilities/insurance/managedcare/faq/nosurprisesact.html

Also, I work in insurance as a software engineer

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The way claims get sent back during billing I became suspicious a lot of them are getting read by machine (and very poorly) during the first round of mail so don’t worry medical billing will get even more fun thanks to AI

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Yeah this might actually not be that far from reality. Computer vision already did a large amount of the lifting, with the massive pushes towards AI, AI will take the rest of us plebians healthcare.

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He is a tech bro. Almost everything he is saying is a lie.

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*parasite…

Nothing bro about this shit stain…

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Almost everything tech bros say is to boost short term share prices. Any resemblance to the truth is coincidental.

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*“Podcast-bro”

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Yeah. It sucks I had to be downvoted into irrelevance way back when this clown was first becoming worshipped by the tech bros.

I don’t take pride in patting myself on the back, but I was fucking right all along about this douche.

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Both crypto and LLMs are new, disruptive tech. The chaos around them is expected.

Which cryptoscam are you referring to? Theres hundreds daily lol

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Crypto and blockchain is tech coming up with a solution that no one asked for. Blockchain is just a database that is (at best!) extremely energy inefficient. Trust comes from the same sources (brand, marketing, advertising, social cues), it being on a blockchain does not magically generate trust.

And crypto’s biggest strength as an uncontrollable and decentralised store of wealth ignore the fact you can only buy and sell it on marketplaces, which control and centralise it, so for nearly everyone involved it’s a pyramid scheme, those at the beginning persuading new people to join to prop up their assets profits

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How is LLM a cryptoscam?

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When that major drama unfolded with him getting booted then re-hired. It was super fucking obvious that it was all about the money, the data, and the salesmanship He is nothing but a fucking tech-bro. Part Theranos, part Musk, part SBF, part (whatever that pharma asshat was), and all fucking douchebag.

AI is fucking snake oil and an excuse to scrape every bit of data like it’s collecting every skin cell dropping off of you.

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I’d agree the first part but to say all Ai is snake oil is just untrue and out of touch. There are a lot of companies that throw “Ai” on literally anything and I can see how that is snake oil.

But real innovative Ai, everything to protein folding to robotics is here to stay, good or bad. It’s already too valuable for governments to ignore. And Ai is improving at a rate that I think most are underestimating (faster than Moore’s law).

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I think part of the difficulty with these discussions is that people mean all sorts of different things by “AI”. Much of the current usage is that AI = LLMs, which changes the debate quite a lot

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No doubt LLMs are not the end all be all. That said especially after seeing what the next gen ‘thinking models’ can do like o1 from ClosedAI OpenAI, even LLMs are going to get absurdly good. And they are getting faster and cheaper at a rate faster than my best optimistic guess 2 years ago; hell, even 6 months ago.

Even if all progress stopped tomorrow on the software side the benefits from purpose built silicon for them would make them even cheaper and faster. And that purpose built hardware is coming very soon.

Open models are about 4-6 months behind in quality but probably a lot closer (if not ahead) for small ~7b models that can be run on low/med end consumer hardware locally.

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Martin Shkreli is the scumbag’s name you’re looking for.

From wikipedia: He was convicted of financial crimes for which he was sentenced to seven years in federal prison, being released on parole after roughly six and a half years in 2022, and was fined over 70 million dollars

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Thank you!

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It’s not snake oil. It is a way to brute force some problems which it wasn’t possible to brute force before.

And also it’s very useful for mass surveillance and war.

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