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Investing in Health @naturalXHealthVentures | PhD @koebenhavns_uni @mariecurie_alum | Fellow @included_VC @beondeck

[@levelsio @levelsio]

It's been about a year ago since I launched a site called 🇵🇹 Only In Portugal to journal the crazy issues we've experienced as foreigners moving to Portugal with both governments agencies and businesses here, most of them quite Kafka-esque in nature

Of course everyone's reaction is "why don't you leave?"

But it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, which has incredible potential

And it's nicer to fix things, and while complaining about things doesn't make you popular (I've received many death threats), it is oddly effective if you do it in the public sphere:

Collectively complaining about things, as we've seen with Google (they stopped self-sabotaging and are now the leader in AI), the European Union (they are passing laws based on @euacc points), and even Apple (Tim Cook finally quit), does fix things, eventually!

So I'm trying the same with Portugal

I feel AI governance has a lot of potential, AI can be quite a neutral party that can look at issues and find solutions in a very pragmatic and non-partisan way

So I've asked AI to analyze over 300 issues, stories and experiences submitted to my site in the last 12 months, and write an deep analysis report how to fix Portugal in the next 5 years: every argument it makes is based on real experiences from real people , so no AI hallucinations

AI believes all issues here are based on 5 core problems:
- The Portuguese government is too expensive and too slow to interact with
- There aren't enough skilled workers and no incentive to become one
- There is zero accountability anywhere in the system
- Technology adoption is 15–20 years behind
- The tax system punishes productive people and rewards evasion

(P.S. of course many of Portugal's issues are a microcosm of Europe's macro issues)

AI then created a 5-Year Action Plan to solve it:

YEAR 1 — Shock Therapy
1.1 Flatten the Tax System
1.2 Nuke the Immigration Agency, Build a Digital Replacement
1.3 Gut the Public Sector Bureaucracy
1.4 The Accountability Law

YEAR 2 — Infrastructure Blitz
2.1 Lisbon Airport
2.2 Digital Infrastructure
2.3 Healthcare Triage

YEAR 3 — Culture Shift
3.1 Skilled Trades Academy
3.2 Animal Welfare & Noise Enforcement
3.3 Court Reform

YEAR 4 — Economic Acceleration
4.1 Housing
4.2 Transport
4.3 Consumer Protection

YEAR 5 — Consolidation
5.1 Measure Everything
5.2 Cultural Campaigns
5.3 The Exit Metric

Of course the next challenge is how do you get this to politicians, but we did this with @euacc before, so we can surely do it in Portugal too!

You can read the full action plan in the reply below!

[yang @yan9_chen]

https://t.co/gSZojTmNE2

[yang @yan9_chen]

https://t.co/rwvUkoCUeT? How we taste sweetness? New research by Prof. Zuker 😉

[yang @yan9_chen]

https://t.co/oBeIghAadR fascinating paper

[Joyance Partners @JoyancePartners]

“Reliance on fossil-based petrochemical ingredients is today’s most critical #sustainability issue in producing #personalcare products."

Our portfolio company #Cellugy raises €4.9M to replace petrochemicals in personal care products: https://t.co/jMkwLMuFgj

[Joyance Partners @JoyancePartners]

“JOYA bridges the gap between #health, #wellness, & aesthetic care at a time when skin-related conditions are becoming a significant cost driver for payers, employers, & patients.”

Portfolio co. #Joya launches with 1st #skincare employee benefit platform: https://t.co/MddHZC2yCc

[yang @yan9_chen]

So sick of the publishing mafia 🙃 this journal is charging poor researchers $4190 to publish an article and still asking other researchers to spend hours of their time to review for free. #openscience #payyourreviewer

[Limbic @Limbic_ai]

Did you catch us on @BBCNews's AI Decoded segment over the weekend?

@refharper and Dr Charlotte Lee-Sinclair discuss how Limbic's clinical AI assistant increases access for minority groups, and enhances the quality of assessments.

🎤 Watch the full story
https://t.co/oRzPy7ofy8

[yang @yan9_chen]

Finally here! @playquell

[Richard H Thaler @R_Thaler]

A nice collection of thoughts by some of the many people who got to know Danny Kahneman over the years.

Remembering Daniel Kahneman: A Mosaic of Memories and Lessons https://t.co/Cc6AGqsYUJ via @behscientist

[yang @yan9_chen]

@ekaurghar with you

[yang @yan9_chen]

Interesting paper, AI fortune telling 🔮https://t.co/EuqI6YwEVJ

[Joyance Partners @JoyancePartners]

Just published - Why we invested in Alba #Health, a #microbiome map for your #baby’s #wellbeing: https://t.co/ObZJMXcGdR

[Robin Carhart-Harris @RCarhartHarris]

This is an interesting read. The entropic brain principle will offer a compelling predictive account of conscious level within 10 yrs & likely sooner, and in concert, also say something predictive about its quality. It’s simpler than IIT, where the integration term has been too vague for a while - not sufficiently adding to the information term (entropy). https://t.co/y4frgeSVmm

[yang @yan9_chen]

@Mishra_CBF_Lab @neurovessels @ozy_ismail @teresastack @simone_woodruff @BrainImmortal Congrats Anusha!

[yang @yan9_chen]

https://t.co/0Qg8S1vBWy

[Seth Bannon @sethbannon]

2M scientific journal articles are published each year. That's ~5,500 per day!

So we built a GPT powered tool to help us stay on top of the latest and greatest science.

We'll demo it for the first time this Tuesday! Join us to see this and more: https://t.co/9vgxZJGNBh

[yang @yan9_chen]

I’ve seen so many lab materials and lab facilities wasted / underused. Antibodies that cost thousands sitting in the dark corner of the fridge for ages, while many other researchers are struggling to find grants to pay for them.
#sharingiscaring https://t.co/JVuGvdHxjo

[yang @yan9_chen]

@BeeHero_io

[FAO Livestock @FAOLivestock]

In many areas of the 🌎, bees, pollinators, and other insects are declining in abundance and diversity.

We ALL must take action to support them and the livelihoods they support.

🐝 Find out how you can get involved
👉 https://t.co/0HRGJXUSrT

#WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees

[yang @yan9_chen]

@carmenpumarinho 🔥