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I did some reading up on Reticulum recently too, it’s neat.

So yeah, a bunch of folks are going to try to break the rules. What happens to those of us who do? How sneaky do we need to be about it?

Looks like a lot of people are going with “denial”. Not a good plan.

My personal plan is to have spent the last twenty years saving intensively for retirement, which looks like it’s a good plan for me but is not something that can be started right now by others.

So I’m not really sure what to recommend. Try to get ready for a period of unemployment and hopefully things will stabilize quickly enough that a new career path will become evident? Getting started on a new one right now might not be a good idea if things will change drastically over the next few years and potentially eliminate that too, so just build up savings and resources as best you can I guess. Research unemployment benefits ahead of time so you’ll know what to do if something happens without warning.

I’ve pondered my own lack of interest and I think it comes down to the Artemis program’s design being such a shitshow. Sure, if you throw enough brute force budget and a long enough time you can get astronauts back to the Moon. But they’re doing it in such a poor manner that I doubt anything will come of it long-term. It’s going to be another unsustainable flags-and-foot-prints stunt.

Some of the recent changes hint at NASA maybe finally getting their act together, but I’ll believe it when I see it - NASA doesn’t actually call the shots here. It’s a political program.

That article is from May 2025, almost a full year ago. In AI terms that’s the stone age.

One of the major problems of getting information about AI inside an anti-AI bubble is that nobody here is actually using it, so they don’t know what its actual quality and capabilities are like now. As I said, I actually set up a system like this for myself on my own personal computer and I keep it updated as new models come out, so I’ve seen what the state of the art (or near-state-of-the-art at any rate) is actually like.

Nothing is perfect, of course. But perfection is not the standard this system is to be compared against. The alternative is the doctor’s handwritten notes and personal memories. Those are almost certainly not as good.

As I said, this is something I do all the time myself. Even with just my piddling little graphics card it works fine, the technology is quite good these days. I’m sure a professional setup being used by a doctor would be a much higher standard than that.

I get the impression no level of quality and no kind of human involvement with the results will likely satisfy you, though. Which means your negative view of AI is not particularly useful here.

You’re asking a forum that’s in a strongly anti-AI bubble, so the answer you’re going to get is both obvious and useless. You might as well be asking a bunch of Vegans whether you should have steak for dinner. You admit yourself to having a strong knee-jerk reaction.

However, it looks to me like their use of AI is a perfectly reasonable one. It’s just making transcripts and summaries of sessions. I do that all the time with personal logs and meetings, I’ve got a couple of local models that run entirely on my computer. So I don’t see the big deal here.

If you feel you really need this medical help then maybe don’t rely on the advice of a bunch of people you know are going to instantly react negatively to AI regardless of any other details.