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If there are more doctors, it would require less of each one's time though.

Nope. There is effectively infinite demand for physician services. If we had more doctors that wouldn't reduce the workload on individual doctors. The actual solution to reducing demands on their time would be through reducing the administrative workload which contributes nothing to patient care. Much of that could be automated or delegated or not done at all.

The time demands also differ widely between specialties. You can't really be a part-time neurosurgeon. But we see a lot of doctors in other specialties like pediatrics, internal medicine, radiology, and emergency care downshifting to part-time schedules after they have established careers.


Yes it would, but the sacrifices start at the university already, that part is incompressible I'm afraid

If you look across countries, you realize that a lot of the sacrifices are part of the pipeline, but not necessarily key to good outcomes. Just like the grueling hours at certain residencies.

It's like claiming that one needs to cram hours upon hours of leetcode practice to be a quality software developer. It might be necessary for some companies to hire you, but that's to meet a filter that is less and less predictive over time, not an actual performance requirement.


And there's certain constraints related to patient's safety which have an impact (i.e. less handovers, longer shifts)

Education system was set up in XIX century. It's not clear how much of it is necessary in XXI century.

Back in the day religious books were copied by scribes educated in a monastic tradition. Now printers can print them in a completely godless manner but the result isn't any worse.


Don't know when he bought his devices, but Apple Intelligence is not yet 2 years old so it might no even have existed when he bought his Mac.


I think your unpilled and lower tier pills are often disguised anti-pills. Anti-pilled as in AI is morally bad. I count myself as both ASI pilled and anti-pilled.

I'd be interested in what data they're using in the first place. It looks like their data is behind a paywall.

Also, funny that their page with for "Companies running Cloudflare" says there are only "887 European organisations using Cloudflare."


None of the most read books of 2026 so far according to Goodreads are significantly older (https://www.goodreads.com/book/most_read?category=all&countr...). Also not the most sold Amazon books: https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2026/books


It’s how they make money


longreads.com, my RSS feeds in NetNewsWire, and podcasts mostly


Apparently we can because a lot (most?) of us are still using GitHub even after all their outages recently.


It contains four emdashes, it overuses the Rule of Three (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...), it has the typical "not X, but Y" sentence, it unduly emphasizes the significance of Buqtrack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...) ("preservation for the ages", really?).

Also, in my experience, LLMs seem to love to say something went "dark" or "silent", to mention a "generation" of people, and to say something "matters". "no corporate filter" also seems like a strange thing to say.


I think it's just regular corporate speech. LLMs do this, because they've learned on this kind of posts.


Em-dashes were in common use long before LLMs existed — anyone saying that’s a sign of LLM use should not be listened to. They’re used by LLMs because they were trained on good writing and we shouldn’t avoid using them any more than we should stop using correct punctuation for the same reason.


> anyone saying that’s a sign of LLM use should not be listened to

You don't need to believe me. You can read the studies about its statistically higher occurrence in LLM writing vs human writing (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.27006) or you can do the analysis yourself.

Also, no one said you should stop using them. But overusing them, along with emulating some of the other common traits of LLM generated writing, will give people the impression that you didn't bother to write something yourself.


You’re misunderstanding the problem: LLMs using emdashes more than the average human still doesn’t tell you that the poster you’re interacting with now is an LLM and not one of the many humans who used emdashes before LLMs existed and are the reason why LLM training picked that up as a good trait. Humans shouldn’t stop writing well just because bots were trained to mimic them.

One other problem with this as a heuristic is technical: they used to be hard to enter on Windows so mostly only professionally-edited text there had em-dashes while the ease of entry on Mac, iOS, Android, and to a lesser extent Linux meant that they were more common there. I suspect that this list disproportionately lists Mac users:

https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo...


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