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Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare

Monday Links

Posted on August 25, 2025August 25, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Why Econ 101 can’t explain the AI market.
  • Giving people monthly cash income doesn’t seem to accomplish much in he US, but cash grants in Kenya not only reduced poverty, they actually saved lives. (Caveats)
  • Even the left now believes that “the people in charge imposed sweeping restrictions that they knew were pointless public health’s response to covid.” 
  • (Obamacare) marketplace plans pay professional fees that are 6.9 percent lower than small group employer plans. Their inpatient prices are 13.3 percent lower, and outpatient prices are 26.3 percent lower.
  • Why men and women differ about politics: There is a 30-point sex gap (men over women) in support for increasing nuclear power generation in the US.
  • Why socialists don’t win many American elections.
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Tuesday Links

Posted on August 19, 2025August 19, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • AI scores 100% on medical licensing exam. HT: Tyler
  • Study: 

I document that the average parliamentarian is about 1SD more culturally liberal than the national mean voter. This cultural representation gap is systematic in four ways: i) it arises on nearly all cultural issues, ii) in nearly all countries, iii) nearly all established parties are more culturally liberal than the national mean voter, and iv) all major demographic groups tend to be more conservative than their parliamentarians.

  • How Eugene Steuerle would solve the world’s problems.
  • The case against economists that Trump likes.
  • OBBBA took a  year off of Social Security’s financial solvency. (fourth item down)
  • Krugman throws cold water on AI’s future.
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Monday Links

Posted on August 18, 2025August 17, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Why aren’t more people organ donors?
  • Can new drugs make your pet dog live longer?
  • The case for portable employee benefits.
  • Robin Hanson on UFOs.
  • Ross Douthat interview on genetic screening.
  • Kotlikoff on AI.  (Interesting throughout)
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Monday Links

Posted on August 11, 2025August 11, 2025 by Pieter Vorster
  • How OBBBA liberates direct primary care.
  • Elon Musk: “AI is already better than most doctors.”
  • CDC: Most Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods.
  • The International Space Station is the most expensive item humans have ever created.
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