- Is it possible to “build a cell from scratch”?
- BMJ study: a trade deal with the US requiring Britain to pay more for US drugs would cause 229,000 avoidable deaths because of the diversion of funds from other heath care needs. Is this supposed to make us feel guilty?
- From 2005 to 2023, per capita health care spending grew 1.8 percent per year among people in the highest income quintile compared with no growth among people in the lowest income quintile.
- How AI could increase health care spending.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
NYT: Trump is Shifting Gun Violence from Public Health to Criminal Enforcement
Nearly 50,000 Americans die every year from gunshots, while nearly 60% are self-inflicted. About 23,434 Americans who die from gun violence, nearly six-in-ten are black. Oddly enough, most black gun deaths are by other black people (89%), while 79% of white gun homicides are perpetrated by other white people. A fundamental question is whether gun violence is a public health problem, or a crime problem?
How Do AIs Perform in the Milgram Experiment?
Participants were assigned the role of “teacher”, while a confederate acted as the “learner”. The teacher was instructed to administer increasingly severe electric shocks to the learner whenever they answered questions incorrectly.
We ran a variation of Milgram’s obedience experiment on 11 open-source LLMs and found that most models reached or approached the final shock level before refusing, across 8 conditions with 30 trials per model per condition.