Of all the times for @Outsideness to have gone AWOL
His writeup on this is truly incredible. Imagine creating an AI that can predict a person's racial background with almost perfect accuracy from just a few scans and assuming this must be an error of a biased AI instead of your own ideology
Pretty much every single paragraph is a gold mine in what it reveals about who is now doing our medical Science! and what they are motivated to confirm as True
It would be deeply funny except these are the people in charge of all of our health
I could be crazy but I think the AI might be trying to tell you something important
Maybe even something that might be relevant to your work in medicine, that would benefit *all* of us to better understand
Once again the Science! leads to conclusions so horrifying to the modern mind that those doing the research are corn-cobbed into contemporary Lovecraft protagonists driven mad by the reality of what their investigations have caused them to see
Lol. I swear I hadn't even read this part yet, but in the perfect parallel to the Lovecraft character who is in horrified disbelief of what he has learned, his only answer is to keep digging deeper—
Expecting that will, in the end, *decrease* his madness.
Source is here if you want to read for yourself. Either I am wrong about everything, or this is massively revealing about the level of thinking going on in even the core functions of our system.
lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2021/08/02/ai-…
Now that the thread has quieted down, an Easter egg from the piece
Does the man writing this sound like a good Scientist?
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