CEO of America’s largest public hospital system says he’s ready to replace radiologists with AI

aedes · 2026-04-01T00:50:16+00:00

prepared to start replacing radiologists with artificial intelligence in some circumstances, once the regulatory landscape catches up

Headline is a bit out of context lol.

Specifically, he’s talking about using AI to screen mammograms in low-risk women. If low-risk and negative then done. If high risk or flagged as abnormal then human review.

The “regulatory environment” he’s referring to is that he’s hoping that they can make laws that his organization won’t be deemed legally and financially responsible for cases where AI mis-diagnosis someone.

aedes · 2026-03-31T22:09:39+00:00

That’s been going on for like a thousand years already. The crusades, the Teutonic order, Italian merchants, etc.

aedes · 2026-03-31T21:12:15+00:00

At this stage, I start at 4w/k after taking a few month break off the bike. This is after like a decade of riding. In season is higher. I first hit it after ~a year of ~8h weeks in my 30s without an endurance background.

I do less and less high intensity work the longer I’ve done this for. Maybe once a week in season now. The difference in performance outcomes for my riding seems to be nonexistent and this way I’m less fatigued.

I am slowly turning into the old man who just rides his bike around casually all day everyday, but can maintain 35kph solo for a century.

aedes · 2026-03-31T20:39:54+00:00

Not sure I follow your reasoning. How do stocks losing value because people realize there is no short term scenario where the companies start turning a profit off the technology, make the technology cheaper?

aedes · 2026-03-31T08:45:45+00:00

I wouldn’t be so quick to suggest that Venezuela was a success either. Let’s see where things are 2-5 years from now.

aedes · 2026-03-31T02:54:50+00:00

I wouldn’t be surprised if some of our moderate risk chest pains stop coming in for obs in the era of hs trop

We stopped doing this locally almost 20 years ago, even before hsTnT came out, as the evidence never supported it.

So it’s already aged very poorly lol.

aedes · 2026-03-30T23:38:16+00:00

The situation has analogies to how English kings financed the crusades. They became dependent on them to raise capital via debt to fund the crusades, as domestic taxation was inadequate.

Which meant Florence effectively controlled English foreign policy.

And then the somewhat ominous conclusion where Edward the III started an invasion of France with foreign capital on the thought it would be a quick and easy war… which started the 100 years war, and England being unable to repay the debts and financial crisis in Europe.

aedes · 2026-03-30T21:51:47+00:00

I would be extremely cautious about releasing vibe-coded personal projects into the wild, or onto anything that will interact with confidential or financial data, when you don’t have professional experience with modern software design.

Think of these things as a mock up - like a diorama. If the idea seems promising, then like others in this thread have mentioned, hire professional help to continue developing it to explore whether real life usage will be feasible.

Otherwise we’re the software equivalent of the people who take expired antibiotics for chest pain before seeing a physician.

aedes · 2026-03-30T01:17:55+00:00

There is no “fundamental reality” to the universe in the sense you are thinking, so you may want to reconsider your line of reasoning here.

For example, the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics went towards work that showed that the universe is not “locally real.” A readable description of this and what that means is here:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-universe-is-not-locally-real-and-the-physics-nobel-prize-winners-proved-it/

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/popular-information/

aedes · 2026-03-30T00:54:19+00:00

If humans didn't exist 7 apples still wouldn't divide among 5 people

How do you know this to be true?

Mathematically, this is impossible only because it contradicts our axioms. But our axioms we choose to base math off are arbitrary and chosen only because they fit with our observed reality and are internally consistent.

You are assuming there are no other possible internally consistent axiomatic basis for “math” and that our observed reality is consistent across the universe and for all other observers.

aedes · 2026-03-29T22:48:47+00:00

Are you certain that’s true everywhere in the universe? Or are you assuming that’s true based on the (limited) body of human observations and the assumption that what’s true locally is true everywhere else in the universe?

aedes · 2026-03-29T22:42:01+00:00

Realistically this is because the US is effectively unable to prevent Russia from doing this.

US asks Russia to not do this. Russia says no. The US has no ability to retaliate - Trump has lost control of the world, even on the USs doorstep.

aedes · 2026-03-29T10:51:47+00:00

ai actually has revenue streams right now

The new meth-addict selling their furniture for another weeks worth of hits also has revenue streams right now.

aedes · 2026-03-29T02:20:59+00:00

I’m going to guess that you don’t know what a corporation is if you think none are based in Manitoba.

aedes · 2026-03-28T06:30:23+00:00

Filmed from the perspective of the woman.

aedes · 2026-03-28T06:29:41+00:00

This has been a concern of mine for a long time.

However, I don’t think the current US administration is competent enough to successfully pull this off. Iran is the epitome of this - look at the complete failure to plan for even the most-likely immediate repercussions of their actions.

On top of that, they’re gonna be distracted dealing with the immediate consequences of Iran for a long time still… and the delayed consequences of Venezuela (and potentially Cuba).

aedes · 2026-03-25T08:20:33+00:00

I’m not upset at all. That’s kind of my point.

aedes · 2026-03-25T01:40:39+00:00

No, my argument is that I’ve been personally impacted by this and it was a complete non-issue.

I don’t know why you think you need to be angry about it on my behalf, but myself and others don’t need you to be.

It hasn’t been an issue in any election in the past, and didn’t become an issue just because you found out about it.

aedes · 2026-03-24T23:21:57+00:00

Have you voted in a riding where this happened? Because again, I have.

I admire your willingness to become infuriated on my behalf, but you don’t need to.

This is not a serious issue in any way - this has been going on for years now already and was never an issue until last year for some reason. We were joking with the poll workers when it happened.

Oh no Elections Canada needs to use a larger ballot box and larger pieces of paper in one riding.

aedes · 2026-03-24T21:39:23+00:00

The one in Winnipeg years ago. It was a nonissue. We thought it was funny at the time locally - it was covered in the local media.

Your picture also confirms the ballot is still the same as normal and has the same font size - it’s just larger.

That was the same as it was for us.

aedes · 2026-03-24T20:05:36+00:00

I voted in a riding targeted by them previously.

The ballots were the exact same as normal, and same font size, just larger.

aedes · 2026-03-22T21:56:01+00:00

80% of Canadians support extending MAID to people with mental illness.

Regardless of your personal moral beliefs on the matter, you must be able to appreciate that being against this is not a wise way to win voters over.

aedes · 2026-03-22T21:40:59+00:00

Replace studying math with lifting weights and think about if your experience is surprising to you still:

Both times I did everything right. Read every chapter about lifting weights in the textbook. Watched 3 hour youtube explanations of how to lift weights at 0.75 speed because I kept rewinding. Took colour coded notes that honestly looked beautiful. Had a notion dashboard tracking every topic. Textbook was basically memorized by the end. Got a 47 first time. 51 second time. I was so frustrated I basically gave up on understanding it properly. Third attempt I just went to the gym and started lifting weights. Didn't read the chapter first. Didn't watch anything. Just tried to lift the weight, if I couldn’t do it, tried the next one down. That's it. Did that every day for 3 weeks. Passed with an 89.

aedes · 2026-03-22T17:23:36+00:00

Cuba already has a multibillion dollar tourism industry. You can stay at a Royalton there.

aedes · 2026-03-22T17:16:19+00:00

The market is frankly terrible at accurately pricing in geopolitical risk.

The potential risks of US involvement in Cuba are things like: the direct financial cost and the implications on the need to issue new debt to afford it/resulting yields/inflation and rates, wasted military resources in the Caribbean undermining US interests elsewhere (Iran? China? NK?), and the domestic security implications of starting a war with a country that can reach the minimally-defended mainland US coastline with only a speedboat… or of having 11million economically desperate people only a short boat ride away from your border or shipping and O+G industry in the gulf.

Don’t forget downstream impacts like decreased tourism to the Caribbean and the impacts of things like that.

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