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    2 months ago

    I’m not going to tell you not to shame us (yes, I still own a model 3) but be careful about who you take a shit on. We want to shame the rich first, not force people into worse situations.

    I’m glad that everyone you know had the financial flexibility and independence to freely change vehicles. However, for many people (myself included) switching from an 18k USD Tesla to something else will involve loans, increased insurance, and other costs that are not financially feasible.

    My eventual goal is to get out of my Tesla (edit - and I strongly encourage others to do the same), but it’s not going to happen overnight and that doesn’t make me less valid as a progressive. In fact, if I’m keeping this 6-year-old rolling bucket of bolts out of a scrapyard, I say that’s the best possible action.


  • Sorry in advance for being captain obvious, but I feel like I can’t get over this. Your comment is *valuable and I completely agree with your take here, but then the elephant in the room is: how do the people with power actually choose to use these tools? It’s not like I can effect change on healthcare AI use on my own.

    So yes, it really can be first pass, good sanity check type of tool. It could help a good doctor if it was employed in a sane and useful way. And if the people with power over the system choose to use that way, I believe it would be a genuine benefit to a majority of humanity, worth the cost of its creation and maintenance.

    Or, it could be used to second guess the doctors, cram more cases through without paying them fairly, or “justify” not having enough qualified experts to match our collective need.

    Just framing how it is used a little bit differently suddenly takes us from genuine benefit to humanity, into profit-seeking for the 1% and lower quality of life for the remainder of us. That is by far my largest concern with this. I suppose that’s my largest concern with a lot of things right now.