Atul Gawande on finding meaning in mortality

On Mortality and Meaning by The On Being Project

The eighth episode in our Wisdom Season

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Not enough rocks?

Google Is Using A.I. to Answer Your Health Questions. Should You Trust It?

…The system has already been shown to produce bad answers seemingly based on flawed sources. When asked "how many rocks should I eat," for example, A.I. Overviews told some users to eat at least one rock a day for vitamins and minerals. (The advice was scraped from The Onion, a satirical site.)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/well/live/google-ai-health-information.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

On Call

Dr. Fauci's book describes trying to build a government response to Covid "with a president who literally did not understand what was going on in some very fundamental ways." Some examples.

https://www.threads.net/@maddowshow/post/C8Vze4FxImX/?xmt=AQGzVW1N-Bsp_vcCfymOvAqz2JlOJTYcYaRg4A_A1uxxPw

Pandemic lit

The growing body of literature about the pandemic "radiates a desire to be useful, somehow, and a sense that perhaps fiction can give people a new way of thinking about the crisis," Katy Waldman writes.

https://www.threads.net/@newyorkermag/post/C8C7MYhR8on/?xmt=AQGzamCu9Yn97gHusiSyOs4fF_OnIRCe-j37P9X2mAlv6A