Do you have Open fatigue?Β There's a product for you β OpenFatigue.ai. It pushes all the right buttons. π€£
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I'm a believe in super intelligence, too, but c'mon.Β Β With Claude, a Harvard physicist produced 36 manuscripts across 18 fields in three months. Was he trying to prove something?
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A Redditor asks: Why is barely anyone talking anout the guy who vibe coded Adobe's whole billion-dollar industry product collection?Β I guess we're pretty jaded now. But people who have tried it still find Adobe's paid product to be better. But just wait until the next coding assistant to come along. Adobe's product suite will be as hard to duplicate as a Hollywood star.
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Did China BREAK America's Biggest AI Advantage?. China contains the top intellect in the world, and surely no one expected that they would like an export embargo threaten their plans for world AI dominance. This doesn't surprise me at all. Of course this might lead to chip design modifications in the U.S. as well, but there are limits to how far this can go. But it still doesn't match the performance of the human brain, so new designs will leapfrog over this as well.
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evipedia.aiΒ is a website that provides up-to-date evidence reviews of health & longevity interventions. I like the links to other already established sites, like examine.com. I don't know why they had to have an AI domain name, though. There's no AI.
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Researchers Transform Old Blood Cells into Young Brain Cells. Introducing transcription factors into aging blood cells reprogrammed them to become epigenetically young neural cells. Could this be used to treat neurodegenerative diseases? We shall see. Paper here.
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AI models may soon self-replicate across smart-home devices, Anthropic warns. We've had problems with botnets before, but not self-replicating AI-powered botnets. These could do a lot more damage.
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Poll reveals where voters stand on high-stakes Portland Trail Blazers negotiations. It turns out that 2/3 to 3/4 of Portlanders don't really care one way of another. I certainly don't, and I'm in good company.Β
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CSI Oregon estimates, Oregon has lost:So, they'll raise taxes and fees. Because unions, NGOs, and government employees have to eat, too.Β
- Β Β 259,000 jobs
- Β Β $73 billion in wages
- Β Β $257 billion in business sales
- Β Β $276 billion in personal income
- Β Β $30 billion in state and local government revenue
Tina Kotek assigns another person to join her panel to design state-run universal healthcare. A socialistic model isn't going to work at the state level, especially for state that is not wealthy β like Oregon. And a state that has so many illegal aliens and, to but it bluntly, has a lot of "takers", and not enough "makers". It puts contrrol of healthcare out of the doctors' hands and into the hands of politicians. And any component of the system that doesn't have union or other political support is going to suffer financially.Β
This new person apparently has studied Taiwan's national healthcare system, and probably wants to model Oregon's system after it. The difference? Taiwan's nurses' labor union is weak and has limited power to negotiate labor contracts. The nurses there accept a lower pay (like the doctors here). Taiwan spends only 7.3% of their GDP on healthcare. Oregon spends 27% of their budget on Medicaid alone. Taiwan is "approaching a crisis point" according to the Lancet, where to make the system work, doctors have to see up to 50 patients in a 3 to 4 hour clinic. 35% of doctors work 60+ hours/week and under half get no bonuses at all. You can do that to Asian doctors, but not in Oregon.Β
Nurses unions would love it if Oregon had a single-payer system because the state would essentially control who gets paid what, and it would be easier to make demands to the union-friendly state government. Once healthcare compensation is negotiated through state-controlled machinery, costs become a one-way ratchet upward β meaning Oregon wouldn't get Taiwan's low cost structure, it would get Taiwan's cost structure plus Oregon's demonstrated inability to control state-negotiated labor costs once politically entrenched.
What the single-payer advocates really want are the cost-savings from a simplified billing system. They might try implementing a Maryland-style price regulation and billing standardization on hospitals. Hospitals won't like it, but it was shown to save money and did improve quality metrics. Perhaps Oregon could start with that.Β
But you can't have quality healthcare delivery, that is universally accessible, and is affordable. You can only pick two. I didn't make this up β this is Kissick's Iron Triangle.Β
