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Yeah, this kind of response from doctors is common, and I find the phenomenon quite interesting.
Red hair by itself doesn’t increase melanoma risk by that magnitude, of course. But even setting that aside, no doctor ever told me that my risk is elevated to this extent, or which supplements can counteract my risk-increasing mutations. So, even if it is in fact obvious/basic, I’m in practice getting something valuable from the LLMs.
More broadly, the melanoma finding wasn’t the most interesting or actionable thing; it was just the simplest to explain.
Overall, I find many doctors more contemptuous and dismissive of AI than people in other professions, and I often wonder why. I wonder if it’s related to the general hostility towards self-directed patient research that many feel.
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I'm lucky enough to have a great doctor and access to excellent Bay Area medical care. I've taken lots of standard screening tests over the years and have tried lots of "health tech" devices and tools.
With all this said, by far the most useful preventative medical advice that I've ever received has come from unleashing coding agents on my genome, having them investigate my specific mutations, and having them recommend specific follow-on tests and treatments.
Population averages are population averages, but we ourselves are not averages. For example, it turns out that I probably have a 30x(!) higher-than-average predisposition to melanoma. Fortunately, there are both specific supplements that help counteract the particular mutations I have, and of course I can significantly dial up my screening frequency. So, this is very useful to know.
I don't know exactly how much the analysis cost, but probably less than $100. Sequencing my genome cost a few hundred dollars.
(One often sees papers and articles claiming that models aren't very good at medical reasoning. These analyses are usually based on employing several-year-old models, which is a kind of ludicrous malpractice. It is true that you still have to carefully monitor the agents' reasoning, and they do on occasion jump to conclusions or skip steps, requiring some nudging and re-steering. But, overall, they are almost literally infinitely better for this kind of work than what one can otherwise obtain today.)
There are still lots of questions about how this will diffuse and get adopted, but it seems very clear that medical practice is about to improve enormously. Exciting times!
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@TheNomadScouser @nonewthing You obviously know what he means when he refers to jihad and that it’s been co-opted by radical Muslims, but you pretend not to because it’s convenient for you.
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@davantarl @nonewthing Do your research on what jihad means, spastic.
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If I mentioned jihad & terrorism each time I talked about Muslims, would you like it?
🕊️@acestrace
@nonewthing all ye comments about jews yet no mentions about zionism at all. stick. to. football.
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@ledtassoball @nonewthing Yeah it would definitely be full of first-world countries otherwise.
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@nonewthing Gee I wonder who keeps meddling in the affairs of the middle east and destabilising the region for their own benefit? I'll wait.
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@IrishTimesOpEd So the fuel protesters blocking roads is a grave threat to democracy, but the Free Palestine protesters blocking the Port Tunnel wasn’t even worth remarking on? Noted.
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Stephen Collins: State’s authority will be challenged again. We need to be ready irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…
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@gavin_oreilly @SeamusPiss @john_mcguirk The difference is that in the US protesters don’t often need to resort to violent means because peaceful protests aren’t mercilessly crushed.
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@SeamusPiss @john_mcguirk Translation
'The US would impose the death penalty as well but I can't admit that because it would weaken my argument'
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You won't hear a word of criticism of this from Tehran Tadhg or the Bohemians man or the lads with the flag balaclavas on their face. At most they'll be shamed into some this is bad but the yanks are worse slop.
New York Post@nypost
Iran to execute the first woman over widespread anti-regime demonstrations trib.al/RVsULLu
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@phl43 @jonatanpallesen I think the centrality of virtue signalling and luxury beliefs in general is another factor that causes institutions to have a liberal bias.
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@jonatanpallesen (In fact, it's not just true for conservatives, but also for anti-liberal progressives. We also saw that in Venezuela.)
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My view on "illiberal democracy" is that, in contemporary societies, justice, the media and cultural institutions are biased in favor of liberals for various structural reasons, so when conservative governments want to change that, they have to actively intervene and this requires violating norms that are supposed to protect those institutions from political interference, whereas a liberal government can respect them and still enjoy an institutional environment biased in their favor.
The result when the norms against political interference in the governance of those institutions are violated however is not just a right-wing version of the kind of biased institutional environment you'd see otherwise, because the kind of heavy-handed intervention that is required to counter the natural bias of those institutions produces a closer political alignment with the government and a much more visible sort of collusion with it than what would happen with a liberal government if you let that natural bias play out.
Ross Douthat@DouthatNYT
The results in Hungary tend to confirm one of my strongly-held views, which is that terms like "illiberal democracy" can be usefully descriptive but the phrase "competitive authoritarianism" is just a contradiction in terms. x.com/zackbeauchamp/…
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@Rory_Shamrock @Nick_Delehanty @davidmcw I think that’s slightly unfair. He has openly said on his podcast that 150,000 asylum seekers entering the country is a scandal and that they should have to work and contribute on arrival. He’s one of the better ones.
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@Nick_Delehanty @davidmcw McWilliams would never expose such egregious corruption as the IPAS scandal. He is a journalist-lite. Calls out the government for mild incompetencies, similar to RTE, but never the grossly egregious stuff that would horrify most of the Irish public.
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Last weekend, @davidmcw wrote a fantastic piece:
"Is Ireland the worst run country in Europe?"
Here on X, we already know the answer.
But over at Irish Times, regular readers have no idea.
Judging by the article, they think Ireland is run badly because of the Metro, Children's Hospital or Port Tunnel running over budget.
The article doesn't even mention "Emergency Accommodation".
In order to truly understand why "Ireland is the worst run country in Europe".
You need to know how the Govt has spent over €15billion in 6 years.
You need to know how:
organised crime,
people trafficking,
corruption,
off shore companies
political influence,
tax structures,
the GAA,
Wall Street bankers,
runaway spending and
total Govt incompetency, are the heart of all this.
There is no other story like this in Irish Political Scandal History.
Its truly the BIGGEST EVER.
Maybe TOO BIG.
Someone should definitely write a book on it.💡
@davidmcw ?
Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪@Nick_Delehanty
The total amount spent on Asylum Accommodation from Q1 2021 to Q4 2025 is €6,453,196,768.19. The Top 25 Companies: CAPEWRATHHOTEL €245.7M MOSNEY €134.3M TRAVELODGE €130.3M GUESTFORD LTD €124.4M BRIMWOOD €116.5M HOLIDAY INN DUBLIN AIRPORT €111.7M TIFCO LTD €108.4M BRIDGESTOCK CARE LTD €94.4M ALL PRO SECURITY SERVICES €93.7M IGO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT €82.4M WINDWARD MANAGEMENT LTD €75.4M MILLSTREET EQUESTRIAN SERVICES €74.1M NEXT WEEK & CO LTD €73.0M EAST COAST CATERING (IRELAND) €64.3M TOWNBELT LTD €64.3M HERONWELL LTD €56.3M CAMPBELL CATERING LTD €53.9M TIRAWLEY LTD €53.1M GATEWAY INTEGRATION€49.8M FAZYARD LTD €44.9M THE D HOTEL €44.7M PUMPKIN SPICE LTD €44.7M TRABOLGAN HOLIDAY CENTRE LTD €44.3M TOTAL EXPERIENCE LTD €44.0M JJUNIOR SERVICES UNLIMITED €44.0M ..🧵
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This is part of why Kalshi & Polymarket are so valuable for society. Accurate real-time feedback loops for decision-makers in society helps with error correction. This was never possible before, since polling is so inaccurate.
camilo@AscendedYield
he saw Labour projected to come third in Scotland looooooool
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@ciarannugent You’ve cited three specific cases and generalised that to say that Irish income taxes aren’t high. Obviously a 52% marginal tax rate above €44k is extremely high. Ciaran, are you a fucking idiot?
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Ireland has the third highest market income inequality in Europe
Irish income taxes are not high. This is a myth.
publicpolicy.ie/papers/compari…
Dan O'Brien@danobrien20
The Laffer curve in action: corporation tax rates have fallen, while revenue has risen. Time to see if the same thing happens for personal income tax? Hundreds of thousands in Ireland have been paying an (insane) marginal rate of over 50% for almost two decades.
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@Nick_Delehanty To be fair, he is probably signalling that he’s also against the bullshit proliferation of quangos and special interest groups that lean on the govt. He’s just too much of a pussy to say it out loud.
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"Democracy cannot be dictated to by an unelected group whose actions are now damaging the Irish public"
- Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan
gript@griptmedia
"Democracy cannot be dictated to by an unelected group whose actions are now damaging the Irish public", Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan said of the protests. gript.ie/govt-gardai-wa…
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How the hell can anybody be a socialist in 2026?
Michael A. Arouet@MichaelAArouet
The implementation of free market and capitalism in Eastern Europe made them not only much wealthier, but also significantly improved life expectancy. The only people in favor of socialism are those who have never experienced socialist misery by themselves. Don’t listen to them.
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@Ttocsic1 @phl43 @qualadder I’m not American. But I will point out that unlike Europe, America is actively engaging in deportation as a strategy to address the problem. Recognising you have a problem is the first step.
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@davantarl @phl43 @qualadder apparently we import violent people and we still have lower crime rates than you, what does that say about your country?
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Do American rightoids think that, if terrorists destroyed a tower and buried thousands of people under the rubble in the middle of a large European city, Europeans would just let the corpses rot there?
Karol Markowicz@karol
After 9/11 I had European friends confused that we would spend time, money and effort digging up the bodies at Ground Zero. What's the point, they said. But it's what Americans (and, ahem, Israelis) do. We love life, we care about our dead, and we don't leave anyone behind.
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@jnul2498 @Nick_Delehanty @breakingnewsie Maybe prices wouldn’t be so high if the minimum wage was lower and employers weren’t getting shafted by a government that hates them.
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@Nick_Delehanty @breakingnewsie Average min wage wage isnt that low i know people need wage make any sort living with price of evrrything
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Ireland currently has 10 bank holidays every year, behind the European average of 12.
breakingnews.ie/ireland/irelan…
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@phl43 @qualadder Actively importing large numbers of very violent people is obviously indicative of a wider level of docility and unrealistic idealism among the voting public compared to the average American voter.
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Violent crime is predominantly intragroup everywhere and that's also true for immigrants in Europe. Punishment is harsher in the US, but that doesn't prevent crime from being higher, as you still let out plenty of dangerous people all the time. This stuff is a problem across the West that you're just hallucinating as a Europe-specific problem because American rightoids have caught a bad case of Europe Derangement Syndrome.
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@FMson82879 @Jor__Bohs Sure how are they supposed to keep going if they don’t get a volume of sales to justify it? Melt
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@Jor__Bohs I despise these cunts.. part of the gentrification of historically working class communities. Talking about Dublins beating heart, looking for cheap pints.
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@CaptainHawaiian @IrishTimesOpEd Why does Sinn Fein constantly block housing developments? I’m not going to bother replying again since you’re a tankie retard, but just one for you to take away.
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@davantarl @IrishTimesOpEd Oh which one? Please give an example of these "marxists" blocking development. Surely marxists aren't historically known for the largest infrastructure and housing projects ever done by man.
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David McWilliams: Sinn Féin’s class-war language is more British than Irish irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…
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@CaptainHawaiian @IrishTimesOpEd So we’re gonna end up with Marxist spastics in government who endlessly undermine the working class by objecting to every housing development. Then all the net tax contributors leave and the economy tanks. Can’t wait.
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@IrishTimesOpEd The Irish times was/is a pro British occupation newspaper. And all writers that serve such a paper are west brits, who's opinion only serve the same masters that seemingly want you to believe the language of our emancipation is of the oppressor.
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@davantarl @Nick_Delehanty It is his right but why are we funding the ESRI report if it doesn't supersede the opinion of a commerce graduate when it comes to govt planning and spending.
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Why are we funding the ESRI, to the tune of millions, if their report is quickly discounted by a commerce graduates opinion piece.
gript@griptmedia
"You should read Eamon Ryan's column in the Irish Times...he takes strong issue with the ESRI's perspective": Taoiseach Micheál Martin insists that houses with better BER ratings have lower bills and that retrofitting is "very, very effective".
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@Oismur @Nick_Delehanty Well no, because that’s an argument from authority. Ryan’s opinion doesn’t “supersede” the ESRI’s, the Taoiseach just happens to agree with him on this particular issue. That is his right as an elected representative, and he is accountable for his views.
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@davantarl @Nick_Delehanty But if that opinion can be discounted as worthless by govt by means of a commerce graduates opinion then why would we pay millions for the ESRIs opinion.
Shouldn't we just hire Ryan and a few others at 80k each and save millions when their opinion supersedes the ESRI?
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