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This is a difficult time to be a health care professional dedicated to improving our systems. Along with all the problems inherent to the peculiar American way of providing care, we now have an Administration openly promoting health disinformation from the MAHA movement through the actions of the Secretary Health and Human Services, Robert F.…
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Things get messy when fat stacks hit the table This is more a speculative essay than a good old angry rant. You know my opinions about the adverse effects of social media in the hands of the grifting “influencers”. We’ve always had frauds and charlatans peddling snake oil and potions, but the powerful manipulation of…
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I haven’t posted much here lately due to some competing priorities: Along these lines, I’m making some renovations to RobertWack.com, which you’ll notice immediately on the front page. All of this is to broaden reach and “find the audience”. As always, I’m interested in your comments and feedback. Given the success of the Substack experiment,…
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How worried should we be and why? This is a meandering essay about language, intelligence, and the claims of AI enthusiasts and catastrophists. Although I’m no expert, given how little we really know about human cognition relative to its infinite complexity, I am skeptical about both apocalyptic and utopian predictions AI and our future. What…
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(originally posted on Your Angry Pediatrician on Substack, lightly edited) This is a story of how in science, despite our attempts to achieve some understanding of objective reality, context still matters. What seems like a good idea in one instance can become a really bad idea in another, not because the science changed, because it…
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The explosive growth of AI technology raises a host of concerns. Data centers hosting AI servers are projected to consume unsustainable amounts of electicity in the near future. At the same time, despite the wonderous achievements so far, critical questions about what society gains from this technology remain unanswered. Our challenge is addressing the issues…
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“How have you been, Professor?” Walter Lippmann asked as the scientist approached. “I am well. Although, I must say it is not so cold and windy down in Princeton!” Lippmann and Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin help Einstein with his overcoat and pull up a third stool. Einstein places his hat on the bar and unwinds…
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Walter Lippmann, one of the “fathers of journalism”, looks up as a slender man in black enters the bar and approaches with a smile. The Roman collar tells him that his visitor is Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. He raises his glass as the priest takes off his hat and overcoat and pulls up a…
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Last month, I participated in an event called Ignite Carroll, part of the national Ignite series, where a speaker has five minutes and twenty slides to share a topic. I took a stab at it and it went well, though I was clearly outclassed by many of the other speakers who gave much more polished…
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