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Language Models and Automated Reification
Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and I have a new essay out today in The Ideas Letter about the creation of reality through pseudoscience, religion, and psychosis. Of course, it’s mostly about AI. Starting with the bizarre appearance of Ant...
The Objective Pursuit of Knowledge
I was surprised by how divisive last Thursday’s post was. Some thought it was my best post, and others my worst. Let me convince you today that both assertions are true.
I understand why people are confused by the massive uncertainty in he...
We're Computerizing and Don't Need You
There is a tempting story you can tell about the cardiology megatrials I’ve written about in the past few posts. If you focus on a single health outcome (say, mortality) and a single disease (say, infarctus du myocarde, aka heart attack), y...
Mesmerized by My Own Beat
You might have noticed a pattern in last week’s blog history of the megatrials in cardiology. All the breakthrough trials I covered were essentially drug trials of anticoagulant interventions like aspirin, streptokinase, and heparin. This,...
Sharing different heartbeats
I’m always looking for examples where we need statistical reasoning and significance tests to change care, and I’m surprised no one has shoved cardiology in my face before.1 Cardiologists can make a powerful case that their field has been c...
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