Lith

@Lith@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to offer another perspective, this covers just how difficult the burden of administrative tasks already is for physicians: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8522557/

  Not all physicians work for a hospital, so I don’t think they all have much access to large departments that can take up the slack for them. It’s difficult to ask them to chase our insurance for us when the paperwork they already do is driving them insane and taking them away from their patients.

  The solution, as you said, is single payer. The overwhelming administrative overhead is a symptom of a very broken system. Nobody directly rendering or receiving care is benefiting from how things currently are in the United States.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are no "secondary" sports league that allow performance enhancement drugs?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This analogy doesn’t work for me. First of all, I’d absolutely watch coked esports. Secondly, glitched speedruns are absolutely a popular form of competitive cheating. Nobody would watch a wallhack competition because that specifically would be boring, it’d just be cameras jumping around and death screens. There’s no real competition happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HBO Max is removing features from my plan without reducing my price.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, the inevitable price increase isn’t until next week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically I’m ok if AI gives suggestions, even at the top level, but there need to be people able to go “hol up, that’s not something we actually want” if it declares something stupid.

  We need to be careful with this approach. SciFi has been warning us about letting technology take over our critical thinking for over a century, and based on human nature, I think it’s an inevitability to some degree. Once we normalize making decisions based on an AI’s input, it will become harder and harder to question them. Regardless of the AI’s “intent”, critical thinking is something we’ll need to continue to exercise, the same way we still go to the gym despite industrializing our hunting and gathering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon CEO Tells Workers: Return to Office or 'It’s Probably Not Going to Work Out for You'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately it stopped being a buyer’s market years ago. If these companies don’t succeed, they’ll just shape the laws so that others can’t either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨probably my biggest gripe with Lemmy right now. Feels like I'm just stuck in a loop.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People did this constantly on Reddit, I don’t know what you’re talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrodinger’s Megamind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I often think about the silicon lifeform from A Martian Oddity because of how uniquely different it is from the carbon-based lifeforms we’re used to seeing even in science fiction.