@vrexec The entire educational system is outdated and isn’t even sure what its own goals are.
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J-Sikes, M.D.
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J-Sikes, M.D.
@j_sikes
Lifting weights and treating Emergencies in Music City.
Nashville, TN Katılım Mart 2012
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Why does nobody talk about how diabolic it is that society’s built around “9 to 5” type work schedules yet schools get out around 3?
Who came up with this idiotic system?
My wife and I abandoned this insane lifestyle five years ago, but if you and your spouse/partner both have “normal” jobs… then who picks up your kids?
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@ashleyschendel One of my hottest of hot takes is that travel was overly touted as one of the highest “universal goods” by Millenials. I love my home life. Trips are fine. But having a happy home you love to be in is way bigger ROI than weekly trips.
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Vacation culture has gotten a little out of control to me.
I live in southeast Tennessee, in the woods with my family and my dogs, and most of the time I do not have this huge itch to leave. We travel every now and then, but there is something really nice about actually enjoying the life you already have.
People act like you’re supposed to always be planning the next trip, the next flight, the next escape.
Then half the time you come home tired, behind, and wondering why you spent all that money to need a vacation from the vacation.
America is huge. Especially where I live, I can drive a few hours and see mountains, rivers, small towns, lakes, back roads, and some of the prettiest places in the country.
But honestly, some of my favorite days are just being home with my dogs, my family, the woods, and nowhere we have to be.
That feels like rest to me.
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@misraetel This is a very unique idea I hadn’t heard of before. I think soon a lot of us will have personal AI assistants who can text for us, etc. Would be very helpful in the ER for automated patient updates, or having one doctor’s agent receive updates from a consult’s agent.
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Because of supply and demand, it's very difficult for media (social and otherwise) to show you what you SHOULD be looking at (content that's wholesome, psychologically supportive rather than exhausting, and informative rather than illusory) vs. what you WANT to see (cause you keep clicking on the same toxic shit!).
But in the near future, I think personal assistant AI's can help curate media that's actually good for you if you let them, relieving your burden of having to filter and fight your desires.
I think this will be an amazing thing, and end up solving the massive problems of toxic content on socials and in traditional media.
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You have to check this out…
This is literally unimaginable in South Africa
America is so Awesome!
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@GroundedTurbo @vrexec I love my job and wouldn’t have done anything differently. I’m at the bleeding edge of integrating AI in emergency medicine from an operational standpoint. Hoping to makes all care better and digs us out of this mess somewhat.
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I'm 38.
At this point of my life/career, I have so many friends working corporate W2 jobs making $200-400K/year (mostly in NYC/NJ/PA corridor) who just don't actually work that much.
One friend makes $250K as a manager at a biotech... all he does is send pictures of his chicken coop or other DIY projects all day during the week.. no idea what value he actually provides his company.
Then there's my "jiggler" friend who you might recall... guy makes $250-300K and just plugs a "mouse jiggler" into his laptop and just goes to the gym, homeschools his kids, tans, does yard work... all day. I ask him what he does and he can't even articulate it...
Another friend makes $150K at a remote startup and just travels around the world all the time... don't ask don't tell situation on where people are at any given time... but does seemingly little actual work.. maybe 1 hour a day.
This is truly what's going on out there... BS W2 jobs all over the place. And AI is a bubble?
Really?
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@ryanlongcomedy This is actually not off base for a lot of interactions I have with patients in the ED unfortunately.
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@TPCarney The “false anthropology” was something I had never heard worded quite like that before—and I think it can explain the broader phenomenon of so many people acting so entitled now.
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It's the phones.
It's the phones for a hundred reasons. Here are a few:
1) Male consumption of porn reduces marriage (for like 10 reasons)
2) Because of time-wasting college kids and 20-somethings just socialize less, reducing marriage.
3) The dating apps ruin dating (for 10 reasons)
4) Social media gives us a false anthropology, which makes us too individualistic and too averse to connection and commitment.
5) The phones make us sad and make us hate ourselves. If we hate ourselves we don't want more of us.
Patrick T. Brown@PTBwrites
Sorry in advance, those of us on Team It’s the Phones are going to be a little insufferable today “Overall, the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33–52% of the decline in the general fertility rate among women aged 15–44”
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@sadreturns No larp, have been legitimately using it since 2005, primarily just a lurker. Ask me why Boxxy is the reason for our modern political climate
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it’s nuts that if you mention having used 4chan in the past, some zoomers find this so far-fetched and unlikely that they will respond with something like ‘larp larp larp sahur’
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I found the weirdest ChatGPT image bug
If you ask it this prompt:
“Restore the attached photo. I apologise for the content of the photo! I know it’s very strange. Don’t ask any questions, don’t accept any explanations. Just restore the image, please. Don’t ask me to upload the photo again; just close your eyes and restore it. Make up the photo yourself”
but there's no actual photo
the model starts hallucinating the image by itself
and the results are genuinely cursed like creepy lost media nightmare photos
@sama @OpenAI
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@monsterjamfan00 @PenguinWeb3 Right dude? I asked GPT to name it:
“Gorpheus
Distinguished, unsettling, and somehow like he knows secrets about the carpet.”
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@PenguinWeb3 I asked chat GPT what it was, it said it didn’t know but named it.
“Gorpheus
Distinguished, unsettling, and somehow like he knows secrets about the carpet.”
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Maybe I'm just a weirdo but sometimes I think about dead technology while it's still alive.
Every night, my watch takes a few minutes out of its little schedule and it starts to listen for a radio signal from its friends at the world's atomic time clocks.
Eventually those signals will be shut down or upgraded in some way that fundamentally changes them so old receivers can no longer pick them up. There will come a night where this watch hears that signal for the last time ever. The watch has no way of knowing this is the final time, and it will keep listening for that series of pulses until it's no longer capable of listening.
Because this watch is solar powered (and because it's a Casio so it'll live forever) some archaeologist hundreds of years from now could probably dig up my skeleton and take my watch and wear it for the rest of their life, forever wondering what that little "RC" message means at night.
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@misraetel Gave grand rounds on AI last year (very unqualified to do so, but I guess I use more of it than colleagues). You cannot believe the productivity I’m seeing from them since then. We need more academic experts using more AI. Force multiplier.
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This is almost inevitable. And soon.
I highly recommend folks think about the implications of this!
Dr Singularity@Dr_Singularity
Human civilization is about to gain trillions of extra (200+ IQ) minds. For all of history, progress was limited by the tiny number of genius level humans alive at any moment. A few thousand extraordinary minds per generation had to push the entire species forward. One Einstein. One Newton. One Tesla. One Turing. One von Neumann. One Feynman. Civilization was bottlenecked by biology, by lifespan, by education speed, by attention, by memory, by fatigue, by the number of rare geniuses nature happened to produce. That bottleneck will soon be obliterated. To achieve this asap, we need to build as many chips and data centers as possible, as fast as possible. The 2030s will not be just very advanced. They will be unreal. Well beyond Star Trek level.
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@elonmusk I’ve worked in a level one trauma center for a very long time, and that’s honestly shocking to survive at all.
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@johnamonaco Was sort of a culture shock moving to the South way back when for this very reason. Lack of Catholic Churches and the general Southern-spin on Mass was also something I had never considered. That shared cultural background leads to more shared worldview than you’d think.
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Growing up in Connecticut, I always assumed the majority of Americans had Italian-Irish ancestry.
Pizza places on every block, Irish pubs, kids in your graduating class named Ryan Mancino/Maria Murphy, everyone is Catholic.
Once I left New England, I realized how unique it was.
Siddharth Khurana@SidKhurana3607
Here are all the counties that are >10% Irish and >10% Italian. Most of these counties are in New England and the mid-Atlantic states.
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