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Colin Bastable's avatar

Super post as always. Thanks!

Bill Gates was a great friend of Epstein, and Bill is also behind “Apeel”, a disgusting produce coating designed to let one’s apple a day be a lot older than you’d think. The produce slowly rots from the inside, like Bill himself, whilst seemingly retaining its youthful bloom.

https://www.apeel.com/

Whilst clearly the antithesis of “organic”, Apeel-adulterated produce is sold as “organic” by retailers, including by Sprouts, the grocer that also sells unlabeled halal meat. And that “water” misting the vegetables… hmmm. Is it just water?

The US “spends” so much on what is ill-health management, as opposed to health-care, because it is inflated to cover enormous salaries, enrich insurers and pay pharma’s margins.

The end product value-add at point of delivery (and therefore actual GNP) is minimal, and probably a net negative. Less “health care” as defined & delivered by the pharma and medical industries would improve the productivity and lives of America’s natural born population.

Especially if they ate locally grown unadulterated apples, fresh veg, meat, eggs…

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Dudeman's avatar

Love the subject you've chosen, sir! Your Granmammy is one wise nut! On the topic of loosing your job to Ai...what about the religion jobs, like a priest? Trigger warning...if you don't like Woody Allen. https://youtu.be/V84FXGpMDhc?si=WUtZncTI-CRH-w-y

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Crixcyon's avatar

Will all those displaced doctors and health care personal go into basket weaving or roadside trinket selling? Or flood the Internet with a million more marketing schemes? The problem is that health care makes up about 18% of the economy ($4.5 trillion) and provides a lot of wealth, jobs and taxes for the government.

What happens when you cut that down by 95% (from $100 to $2) using A/i retards who need no salary, produce nothing, take away jobs and pay no taxes? The government is so stupid as to not see this and it's just warp speed us into A/i retardism without any second thought as to the unintended consequences that will pop up like weeds. And of course, congress will be there to solve every one of them.

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Cretia's avatar

Horror of horrors!

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John's avatar

Simple databases in conjunction with simple questionnaire front ends to them have produced far more accurate diagnosis for 30 years now and doctors have refused to use them for a very simple reason, they would lose their jobs that rely on giving wrong diagnosis and getting people hooked on dangerous drugs that will make the doctors very very rich and the patients very ill.

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kimyo's avatar

>>17 million workers and their families tossed, virtually overnight, onto a proverbial breadline

who's going to operate the xray/cat scan machines, intubate patients, change iv fluid bags?

also, ibm couldn't get watson to diagnose/treat patients reliably, its advice would have killed people if followed.

ai in medicine is even more horrific than what we have now.

ps: isn't it about time for trump to give a prez medal of freedom to rfk jr for making skittles slightly less unsafe?

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John's avatar

As a general practitioner friend here in the UK told me years ago "Most people in hospital are put there by their doctors ........ and not in a good way."

If AI can end that misdiagnosis and maladministration of drugs that eventually kills people I'm all in favour of it. AI can give a rundown of how and why it came to the conclusions it did and when have you ever had a doctor do that for you? You can then check what the AI says and see if you agree. That is real informed consent that people simply do not get from the vast majority of robotic clones we have today pretending to be doctors.

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kimyo's avatar

>>If AI can end that misdiagnosis and maladministration of drugs that eventually kills people

if you train your ai based on german medical science of the 1930's and 40's then you might get somewhere.

but any fda-approved ai is going to be fully enslaved to big pharma. it will treat 'high' cholesterol with statins, and the resulting diabetes with metformin.

any ai trained on our current body of published medical science is inherently flawed, as that science is fraudulent and based on big pharma publishing the positive results and burying the negative.

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