Wegovy and Zepbound prices dropped 70% in 3 years. Why? People pay out of pocket. Healthcare gets cheaper when consumers spend their own money.
@ManhattanInst senior fellow @david_goldhill for @CityJournal
https://t.co/cG9vGWAQp1
Honored to present LBCT results of MUTTON-HF at #ACC26.
🐑- RCT of Indigenous culturally and medically tailored meal program for HF in Navajo Nation. We found-
- Primary outcome: hospitalization and ER visits significantly lower in intervention arm (RR 0.72)
- Driven mainly by hospitalizations (RR 0.48)
- Lower HF hospitalizations
- Improved KCCQ, BP, weight, financial strain and food security
Leveraging protective assets of Native communities is critical to advancing holistic Indigenous CV health
https://t.co/BXFC89XkkY
@PennLDI@PennCardiology@HHSGov@IHSgov@ACCinTouch
I did the math a couple weeks ago and it turns out a vegan prompting a frontier LLM *every second, 24/7* consumes less water than the average omnivore who never uses AI.
Extremely specific life advice: you can convert Fahrenheit to Celsius with the stops on the 6 train.
33 St =0°
42 St=5°
51 St=10°
59 St=15°
Works to 96th St!
I was using ChatGPT for legal advice and it decided to completely hallucinate some preposterous nonsense about how growing wheat to use on my own farm somehow constitutes interstate commerce
An advanced, AI-powered technology is developed
The Pentagon wants it and demands an eccentric CEO turn it over to the government
He declines, setting up a clash between the U.S. and the company's suddenly in-demand tech
Anyway this is the plot of Iron Man 2
Two things can be true:
1. FDA’s handling of Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine review raises process questions
2. The data themselves were underwhelming
Here's my take, finishing up with perhaps the biggest disappointment -- it's a hit on pandemic preparedness.
https://t.co/uTjC5kK9FQ
Uber famously changes prices in response to demand, hiking prices when more people want the service. Who benefits? The consumer. Drivers lose out slightly compared to a world where Uber sets a uniform price. Total surplus goes up. We shouldn't be afraid of higher prices! 1/
Charlie Hicks ate his lunch and dinner at the Shrimp Basket in Pensacola, Florida, every day for 10 years. When he suddenly stopped showing up, the chef went looking for him – ultimately saving his life. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road.
I write a lot about Covid origins.
I thought the lab leak theory made sense, back in 2020, but I eventually came to realize that it's very unlikely to be true.
Here's a summary of some long posts I've written and many shorter threads:
@tracewoodgrains I have so many questions:
Should Waymo cars be programmed to evade arsonists?
Are they allowed to break traffic laws to do so?
Can they hit pedestrians, in the process?
Does a human driver have different rights?
Does the Waymo gain all those rights if it has passengers?
Good news everyone! The unpopular and seemingly irrelevant lecture I give in my health econ class on "Most favored nations agreements" just became prophetically relevant.
Bad news everyone! This is a terrible policy.
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👀Today’s AIs are already hyper persuasive.
A controversial study where LLMs tried to persuade users on Reddit found: “Notably, all our treatments surpass human performance substantially, achieving persuasive rates between three and six times higher than the human baseline.”
Even if you’re a ghoul who doesn’t believe that immigrants possess basic human rights, if you get rid of due process for immigrants, you are also damaging the rights of citizens. Due process helps us know who is a citizen and who is an immigrant.