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andrepd a day ago

Two MAJOR issues with your argument.

> where every person can ask a doctor their questions 10 times a day and instantly get an accurate response.

Why in god's name would you need to ask a doctor 10 questions every day? How is this in any way germane to this issue?

In any first-world country you can get a GP appointment free of charge either on the day or with a few days' wait, depending on the urgency. Not to mention emergency care / 112 any time day or night if you really need it. This exists and has existed for decades in most vaguely social-democratic countries in the world (but not only those). So you can get professional help from someone, there's no (absurd) false choice between either "asking the stochastic platitude generator" and "going without healthcare".

But I know right, a functioning health system with the right funding, management, and incentives! So boring! Yawn yawn, not exciting. GP practices don't get trillions of dollars in VC money.

> Ask an LLM, which gets you 80-90% of the way there.

This is such a ridiculous misrepresentation of the current state of LLMs that I don't even know how to continue a conversation from here.

markdown a day ago | parent | next [-]

> In any first-world country you can get a GP appointment free of charge

Are you really under the assumption that this is a first-world perk?

andrepd a day ago | parent [-]

You're right, it's also true in many middle-income countries, like Brazil.

markdown 7 hours ago | parent [-]

And also true in "third world" countries.

andrepd a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I love that the next day, I open this post and it's simply downvoted with 0 counterpoint.