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  • As it is most doctors barely provide good care anymore.

    As someone who nearly died and has seen a plethora of doctors over the last 2 years, you’re not wrong.

    The specialists or surgeons have all been knowledgable and good, but the generalists I’ve seen for routine stuff have ranged from barely sentient prescription pad, to actually good.

    You probably could replace some of the walking prescription pads with an AI and not lose much, but I wouldn’t trust an AI for anything more complicated than a sore throat, personally.












  • Gonna disagree here.

    Humans have always had “social media”, but it’s not been directed by a cadre of oligarchs until recently.

    I mean shit, humans have been sitting around the campfire telling stories to each other going all the fucking way back to forever. Sure, a campfire story isn’t a tweet, but for our monkey brains it’s essentially the same thing: how we interact with our social groups and learn what’s going on around us.

    The problem is that the campfire stories couldn’t be manipulated into making your cavemen neighbors hate the other half, because half of them were totally pro rabbit fur while you’re pro squirrel fur.

    You absolutely can do that and worse now, so while we’ve always had social media, we just simply never had anyone with enough control to make an entire society eat each other because of it’s influence.