For very similar reasons why the US has the 5th amendment, why blanket surveillance is not considered a good thing by functioning democracies, and why most people want their porn-viewing habits to remain private.
There are plenty of bad things that need to be prevented, but a functioning democracy requires the ability to act outside the surveillance of both your peers, and the currently sitting government.
We need to stop paying doctors millions of dollars. That’s the only way it’s going to come down. Half a million, whatever they get paid is making it so people have to do without decent insurance. That’s the biggest variable I see in the US vs other countries (not to mention bogus drug pricing, but there are controls hopefully being implemented for that.
s/doctors/private equity. The CEOS who keep acquiring hospitals and running them to the ground are the real ones at fault. We can definitely pay doctors a good salary after 10+ years of post-secondary schooling.
>not to mention bogus drug pricing, but there are controls hopefully being implemented for that
not really much "hope" for this administration. Especially when it comes to doing things that benefit the working class.
I blame Sam Altman with all his hype that’s he’s slowly trying to backtrack and change his image on (cozying up to Ives, calling AI a bubble, Interviews with his brother designed to make him look more personable). His dystopian visions of basic income and $20K AI agents are mostly to blame.
He was the poster boy for all this. I don’t know how many times I’ve quit ChatGPT and on the retention form I say it is because I don’t like or trust Sam Altman. (I do like to try the tech, but I want Anthropic or Google to win)
I think he took a real Ryan Holiday type marketing approach, and it was the most successful in history. The guy is a genius in many many ways obviously. But I def don’t like the way he makes me feel.
It's natural to feel this way. But the thing that you have to remember about interviews like this where you're doing multiple rounds is that a lot of times they'll have people come to a round table discussion. If one person says something negative, that can often change the course of whether or not you're going to get the job. It depends on how much influence that person typically has. A lot of times people might defer to that person,etc.
I really blame the Sam Altman hype machine for all of this dystopian nonsense. He really is like a Ryan holiday you can’t trust anything he says. He's the one who started all this "employees are going away" stuff with this $20,000 AI employee. that's not when he started it, he started it long before that with all his basic income bullshit.
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