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New comment by skeptic_ai in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

skeptic_ai — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:31:27 +0000

You have 2 options

A) nice chatty friendly and cool doctor and can diagnose correctly 50% of the times. B) robotic ai that diagnoses 60% correctly.

What you chose? If you have a disease than can kill your, the ai is 20% more likely to help you and probably prevent. I can’t see too many people choosing human doctor. Anyway I’m sure there will be people that will chose doctor with 10% correctness vs a 100% ai no matter what.

I time is clear there very little human element.

New comment by skeptic_ai in "The smelly baby problem"

skeptic_ai — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:12:43 +0000

Yeah the environmentalists are always happy to make other’s life harder (for the nature) but not their own.

New comment by skeptic_ai in "The smelly baby problem"

skeptic_ai — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:11:15 +0000

That’s disgusting and probably worst for the baby. Especially:

> We bought our cloth nappies on eBay, already second-hand. We passed them on still usable years afterwards.

New comment by skeptic_ai in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

skeptic_ai — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:35:00 +0000

Fair enough. Made a mistake to assume anything

New comment by skeptic_ai in "Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat"

skeptic_ai — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:27:42 +0000

Depends.

New comment by skeptic_ai in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

skeptic_ai — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:23:50 +0000

They are pacifiers. Kills everything until it’s pacified.

New comment by skeptic_ai in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

skeptic_ai — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:19:11 +0000

Exactly, it’s all marketing seems to get new customers. And it worked.

New comment by skeptic_ai in "Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat"

skeptic_ai — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:20:17 +0000

I know some very smart guys that don’tknow how to use a microwave. And what? Doesn’t mean much

New comment by skeptic_ai in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

skeptic_ai — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:44:53 +0000

So mass surveillance on non us citizens is having integrity?

New comment by skeptic_ai in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

skeptic_ai — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:01:49 +0000

You lost your account and you still back to Gmail? Impressive

New comment by skeptic_ai in "Daily Driving GrapheneOS"

skeptic_ai — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:52:41 +0000

Can’t use my phone to pay becomes kind of useless

New comment by skeptic_ai in "Daily Driving GrapheneOS"

skeptic_ai — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:52:15 +0000

Well I’m a tech person and I’d never think of using the browser. But thanks

New comment by skeptic_ai in "Daily Driving GrapheneOS"

skeptic_ai — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:40:34 +0000

I’ve tried but: couldn’t get my card to work on wallet. Can’t verify.

Uber couldn’t verify payment so I couldn’t take a ride when needed.

New comment by skeptic_ai in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

skeptic_ai — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:43:23 +0000

The workers behind Meta’s smart glasses can see everything (svd.se) 700 points by sandbach 5 hours ago | flag | hide | 402 comments

New comment by skeptic_ai in "We Will Not Be Divided"

skeptic_ai — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:55:40 +0000

USA can’t just deny the ability to leave if you are deemed to be important for national security?

New comment by skeptic_ai in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

skeptic_ai — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:14:52 +0000

> they have also threatened to designate us a “supply chain risk”—a label reserved for US adversaries

They are US adversaries if they don’t give to USA what they want… so as an adversary that doesn’t do what’s told to fit in line… you must go to prison.

New comment by skeptic_ai in "Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage"

skeptic_ai — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:50:49 +0000

So I have safari and I can’t switch to my email? Both native apps and sometimes I lose the state of safari if I move more than 10s away? I have to keep switching between the 2 apps to keep alive my safari tab? Insanity

New comment by skeptic_ai in "Two insider cases we've recently closed"

skeptic_ai — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:16:59 +0000

lol definitively the small fish. What’s 200 and 4000 in the total? 0.0000000001%? And they only catch because one was bloating on their social media.

New comment by skeptic_ai in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

skeptic_ai — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:38:29 +0000

USA would bomb their country before any visa is approved

New comment by skeptic_ai in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

skeptic_ai — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:27:17 +0000

And then they complain that Deepseek copied from them haha