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[PopeBeanie]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

AI could provide vastly sped up analysis of drug interactions and side effects…provided, of course that it isn’t infected by Elmo Hitler. (By the way, would there be an Elmo Hitler if there were no Corporation for Public broadcasting to birth Elmo in the first place? 🤔😁)

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A tall order, but it could be done if only we all got past the false binary of a status quo that doesn’t work versus a will-of-the-wisp undefined MAHA that might go even worse.

We’re already using AI in medicine for the purposes you suggest. Hospitals (for various medical fields), Universities, drug companies (e.g. for protein folding solutions). NIH has funded a lot of it. There’s also success in other countries, regardless of type of health care system, as professionals in their field take advantage of AI, spotting cancer sooner, the most successful therapies, and so on.

On vaccines… recent cross-discipline reviews of epidemiological data shows that more than one type of vaccine shows significant reduction in the speed of onset of dementia… who could have guessed? This is another area where AI should also make new discoveries, since finding relationships among separate data sets is one of its strengths.

Recent months have proven that making government and funded institutions dysfunctional or just disappear is the orange/doge/2025  mantra, before they even try to understand how those institutions have historically made us Great in the world.

I don’t see as much false binary or handicapped status quo in our pre-Elmo Hitler era as you do.

[TheEncogitationer]

PopeBeanie,

The examples you cite are all perfect examples of Medical AI done right.

Unfortunately, I suspect that “Free Palestine”-ers and lazy cartoonists who make three-fingered characters have evidently hijacked all the AIs and produced all the FUBAR scandals that have come from AIs lately.

Right now, for the moment, I am also simply non-plussed by the every institution touching Medicine, whether AI -assisted or not.

Most recently, I asked the Duck.AI what physicians recommended for faster healing of diabetic foot wounds. It gave answers no different than a regular Web search I did myself and in fact provided the same sources I had looked up. No innovative cures or regimens thus far.

What’s more, I don’t know what sort of intelligence goes into insurance policies. I’ve just recently been informed by my Foot and Ankle Practice that although my insurance covers the debridement procedure on diabetic foot wounds, which is done every 2-3 weeks for as long as the wound is there, the insurance only covers three office visits a year, when office visits are what is required to receive debridement.

And a single-payer system would just add a waiting line to janky AI and janky insurance.

Real intelligence is what is needed and it is getting harder to find.

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Not worth a new topic, so I’m putting it here.

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250723045709.htm

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