Mark Goldenson

Building and investing in startups that make life better. Exploring ideas in AI and health. I love learning, programming, fitness, games, dogs, and kind people.

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4. I understand if you prefer to "spend months struggling with a research problem I knew AI could solve instantly". I still like solving crosswords when I know AI could solve them.

But in work, I love AI's speed and efficiency. It also creates new intellectual challenges like creating pipelines, automating agents, and reviewing outputs.

In advocating for slowing AI, you're advocating for hindering how I and many entrepreneurs I know want to create value for the world. It's important to draw a clear line between "I prefer to work the old way" and "I want everyone else to, too."

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@2plus2make5, thanks for your essay. Some concerns:

1. If you influence the slowing of AI, you are risking higher rates of cancer for everyone, not just yourself.

https://t.co/4Zmy710wev

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3. I agree with your challenges of powerful AI: "mass unemployment, skyrocketing inequality, repressive surveillance, and autonomous warfare."

But you are not offering solutions beyond slowing AI down. We need to move AI discourse beyond vague anxieties into practical solutions. Open-source models, third-party audits, staged deployment, and UBI all have potential as solutions but the details need to be shaped.

"Just slow things down" is too blunt and risks slowing all of AI's benefits.

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@ComRicheyweb Hi Michael, I had the same AssociateNotEligible issue. Amazon said, "The current eligibility criteria as of 11/11/25 is that the Associate must have a valid open store and 10 qualified sales in T30 days." This used to be 3 sales in 180 days and 1 sale in 30 days once approved.

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@prenuvo 1. Prenuvo focuses on one type of service: MRI scans. They don't have to track hundreds of procedure codes.

2. Plenty of care providers who charge less than $2,000 offer superbills.

@prenuvo, this significantly reduces my interest in getting another scan. Please reconsider.

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A heads-up that @prenuvo no longer sends superbills for insurance reimbursement. My insurance covered ~$600 of my 2023 scan.

Prenuvo's explanation that insurance codes change too often to send a superbill is hard to understand.

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What integrity looks like.

https://t.co/IgnRpBIOkf

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I was saying goodbye to my mother on a call this morning, hadn’t had my coffee yet, and my brain couldn’t decide on “see you shortly” and “see you in a bit”, split the difference and came out with “see you in a shit.” 🙃

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@eriktorenberg …beyond what most consumers would pay for on-demand care. Some concierge therapists and coaches offer this at high rates.

There may be a market for listening / low-end on-demand care like 7 Cups but I think AI-powered therapy and coaching is a better solution.

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@eriktorenberg - Doctors report being on call is stressful, even if they’re not called in. Hard to relax or make commitments when you may need to work on short notice

Telehealth networks do offer high-skilled on-demand providers like psychiatrists and radiologists but they’re compensated…

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@mettler @LeeJacobs @leejacobs I like IFS but I’m curious if you think its opportunity is bigger than CBT or DBT. I haven’t seen a breakout in therapy AI yet. Like video therapy, may take a while to spur behavior change and drive reimbursement. Optimizing UX and response quality is also challenging.

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@mettler @LeeJacobs @mettler Thanks for the ping and sorry for the long delay! I know of a few therapy AI companies - Woebot, Wysa, Kintsugi, https://t.co/omBwZLADCm - but I don’t think any are focused on IFS.

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@ben_mathes @ben_mathes Any suggestions on how to reduce the spam texts? I moved from Android to iOS and they got worse. The “Filter unknown senders” setting in iMessage doesn’t seem to help.

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@connerdelights @eshear I bet this could be a niche business: upload books to an LLM, let users choose one they're reading, present multimodal exercises and feedback that reinforce the material.

Could gamify it, offer spaced repetition, eventually embed in the books for distribution.

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@connerdelights "The road to fame is through sponsored socks."
-Nietzsche, probably

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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks wrote on how to create collective joy. A man sent a letter to his rabbi:

"'I am depressed. I am lonely. I feel that life is meaningless. I try to pray, but the words do not come. I keep mitzvot but find no peace of mind. I need the rabbi's help.'

The rabbi sent a brilliant reply without using a single word. He simply circled the first word of every sentence and sent the letter back. The word in each case was 'I.' "

Source: https://t.co/PVOEuEuADu

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@ShaanVP 🏴‍☠️

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@catehall @Aella_Girl Hi Cate, how did you interpret this? Did reincarnation feel true or was the meaning more metaphorical?