From today's protest at a busy intersection in Seattle (one of many actions around the city). We had more or less constant honking in support from cars driving by, but my favorite was the biker who rode past saying "HONK HONK HONK"! (1/2)
"Providers are pushed to spend less time caring for each patient as health systems move to reduce costs and increase revenue under the technological principle of maximal efficiency and output. But medicine was never intended to be another industrial complex."
This essay is beautiful and powerful.
"We cannot afford to replace the critical tasks of federal workers with models that completely make stuff up. There is no substitute for the expertise of federal workers handling sensitive information and working on life-critical sectors ranging from health care to immigration."
Thinking of early-career researchers who have poured a PhD's worth of blood sweat and tears into AI safety and related topics. Is there an off-ramp we can offer them that uses the skills they acquired towards non-TESCREAList ends?
