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Encultured: an AI doomer’s video game startup pivots to medicine. It’ll be fine. (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He was previously involved in MetaMed, a 2012 attempt to use medicine to demonstrate the power of LessWrong rationalism: telling staff not trained in medicine that their job was to out-doctor actual doctors from first principles they had learned on an amateur philosophy forum.

Microcosm of the entire ratosphere.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

2012? So where's the reporting of their success? 12 years is enough to literally finish med school and get a license, surely they achieved way more in that time with their massive rat ~~dongs~~ brains.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

Vassar founded MetaMed as a real-world test of the inherent superiority of LessWrong ideas. By 2015, he had his answer! they fail