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[Brandon Fuller @fuller_brandon]

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

[Lauren A. Eberly, MD, MPH @eberly_lauren]

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

[Trevor Levin @trevposts]

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.

[Ellen DaSilva @ellenjdasilva]

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!

[Analytic Valley Girl Chris @ChrisExpTheNews]

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

[Benjamin De Kraker @BenjaminDEKR]

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

[Paul Sax @PaulSaxMD]

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

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

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/

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

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.

[tylercowen @tylercowen]

The "American democracy is in trouble" crowd also took a banging last evening.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

Seems like the commentary from every election cycle is that voters are in a state of discontent and seeking change.

[Peter Miller @tgof137]

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:

[Peter Miller @tgof137]

@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?

[Jason Abaluck @Jabaluck]

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.
🧵

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

This is insanely hardcore

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

👀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.”

[John Horton @johnjhorton]

it's kind of funny that "snake oil" is synonymous with a worthless fraud, but ozempic mimics a protein in gila monster venom

[David French @DavidAFrench]

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.

[tylercowen @tylercowen]

@nabeelqu One key implication of this is that you can produce small benefits for other people (usually) at effectively zero opportunity cost.