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Thank health insurance lawyers for that. Unintentionally terminating a pregnancy or causing a birth defect is prohibitively expensive for healthcare providers. If we could all agree not to sue for malpractice, doctors would be more free to use their own judgement. Of course, the more doctors you know, the less comforting that thought might be.

Everything you said is accurate, with one caveat: patients are often ignorant about the mechanics of pregnancy. Reproductive health education is shockingly insufficient among the population. “Could you be pregnant?” is not a useful question unless you’re sure that the patient understands how pregnancy works. Asking for the date of their last cycle is at the very least a data point that has some diagnostic value. “No, I can’t be pregnant because my boyfriend always pulls out” is a statement that contains a lot of information, but none of it has diagnostic value. You would still need to ask all the questions related to possible pregnancy.

That said, you’re right that the timing isn’t necessarily informative, either. And double down on asking these, or any, questions in private.

That’s probably part of it, and all of this is pretty silly.

But maybe an upside is that if people stop being shitty to chatbots, maybe we can normalize live customer service agents ending interactions when they become abusive. Maybe Claude is monitoring live agent conversations, making and documenting the decision to terminate the call. Humans have a higher threshold for abuse, and will often tolerate shitty behavior because they err on the side of customer service. If it’s an automated process, that protects the agent.

Of course, all of this is wishful thinking on my part. It would be nice if new tech wasn’t used for evil, but evil is profitable.

Improbability of what? I’m not familiar with the fine tuning argument, but I’ve never come across any religious argument that wasn’t easily dismissed as disingenuous or circular tautology.

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So don’t buy a Volkswagen. Got it.

Jim Ross and Vince McMahon are both also racist pieces of shit.

Wait, I thought that was a meme.

We do net promoter scores, out of 10. 9 and 10 are positive, 6-8 are neutral, 1-5 are negative. We get scores like “Good job, no complaints, 5 points” or “Best service ever, but my internet went down, so I knocked it down to 8 points.”

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People who fly in planes…

People who drive cars…

People who work for corporations…

People who eat imported off-season fruits and vegetables…

People who have children…

There are thousands of personal choices everyone could make to make the world a better place, and none of them will be effective on their own. We’re all thoroughly fucked because the rich control the world and they think they will be able to ride out the collapse on their private islands and gated farms. Nothing you and I can do will stop the apocalypse, so stop being judgemental about choices other people make, and just enjoy the ride.

I’m out of the loop on what the Mississippi Internet Law is, but I can already tell it’s going to be unfathomably stupid.

Edit: Read the article, confirmed suspicions.

Terrorists. This is a picture of terrorists engaged in an active terror attack on the Capitol that had casualties.

Also, a phone call with the scrupulous hound-dog chasing him where he is alarmingly close by but still one step ahead.

Can’t have poor people learning.

Reddit posts were a significant source for training LLMs. The algorithms know what people want.

Cory Doctorow never disappoints.

This reminds me of a movie or a tv show where people were sneaking into a compound and disabled the security cameras with a laser pointer.

I follow a lot of journalists on Mastadon, so yeah, that happens a lot.