I remember during the AIDS crisis health workers starteed to use the phrase “Men who have Sex with Men” in their education outreach partly because a significant number of these men did not self-identify as gay or bi.

It’s in the past tense though; we don’t have to assume it was now-ish.

(I want to believe!)

They were just examples. My point is that novellas can be just as good as full length books!

You are very very fast!

I encourage you to read more novellas! Some really great writing is in them. For example One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Metamorphosis, Animal Farm, I Am Legend, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Ah Q, Heart of Darkness, A Clockwork Orange, The Third Man, and many many non-famous ones, like ZOMBIE by Joyce Carol Oates.

I find this attitude chilling.

I am by no means a speed reader, but even I think 238 words a minute is painfully slow!

There are too many alarming assumptions in your scenario.

Given their claim I would assume @Treczoks@lemmy.world will have a much faster reading speed.

Their collection quite likely contains shorter genres (novellas, plays, poetry) and might also contain fast reads (trashy fiction, collections they were published in themselves and skim read the rest to be polite, etc).

Thank you for this break down. It makes a lot more sense than the stat alone.

I think I’m just going to have to agree to disagree.

AI getting a diagnosis wrong is one thing.

AI being bulit in such a way that it hands out destructive advice human scientists already know is wrong, like vaccines cause autism, homeopathy, etc, is a malevolent and irresponsible use of tech imo.

To me, it’s like watching a civilization downgrading it’s own scientific progress.

I take your point. The version I heard of that joke is “the person who graduated at the bottom of their class in med school”.

Still, at the moment we can try to avoid those doctors. I’m concerned about the popularizing and replication of bad advice beyond that.

The problem here is this tool is being marketed to GPs, not patients, so you wouldn’t necessarily know where the opinion is coming from.

I’d hope the bar for medical advice is higher than “better than the worst doctor”.

Will be interesting to see where liability lies with this one. In the example given, following the advice could permanently worsen patients.

Given that the advice is proven to be wrong and goes against official medical guidance for doctors, that could potentially be material for a class action lawsuit.

When we look at passing scores, is there any way to quantitatively grade them for magnitude?

Not all bad advice is created equal.

I would idolize Avasarala if it wasn’t for S1E1.

China does this too. I love getting files in this format.