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AI is going to be used to deny care and entrench racism in medicine.

It’s insane to think anything else might happen.



How many people remain completely still the entire night and don’t move their heads at all?

Anybody with sleep apnea who has a CPAP has solved a harder version of this problem. It sucks and takes a while to get used to but it’s way better than waking up with a headache every day.

I assume that if the implant is helpful the overnight charging will be readily accepted by users.

(I’ve got a peripheral nerve implant myself so I am quite familiar with what lengths people will go to to relieve pain)


I have a (peripheral) nerve stimulator implanted.

Insurance paid for the trial implant, then the permanent one. They also paid for a couple of meetings with a rep from the mfgr who showed me how to use it best.

I have the device, the control, and a transdermal charger. No subscriptions, no remote access, I don’t think it keeps logging data.


Perturbed gradient descent with backprop is what we were doing in the 90s. It feels like there are some new tricks but mostly what I see is the result of GPUs and cheap memory.

I volunteer at a summer science camp and 90% of the projects are “I pointed AI at this problem and…”, nobody seems to be even trying for analytical approaches any more. I’m ready for a new fad.

Anybody else remember when it was all wavelets all the time? That was kinda fun.