Relatedly there needs to be better language for this, like the What Gets On The Plaqueness of a cause of death label which becomes the final line of the intro para of a Wikipedia bio which therefore becomes the summed regurgitation of a generative llm
Relatedly? I saw a critique shared in a meme from a fellow complex patient about how surgeons only allow themselves to perceive "current imaging" as your medical history will mean nothing in an OR; I experience this contextless medicine with unevenly weighted labels constantly. If you can imply that you have What Gets on The Plaqueness around your doctors care unlocks like a mechanical animation in a heist movie
Actually if I weren't working with software teams right now what I wouldn't give to do research on doctors' understanding of and evaluations about causality and the diagnostic and care access consequences of this, it would be fascinating
@grimalkina it would be incredible if you were able to pull it off tbh. It would be life-changing for so many people!
I wonder who would be harder to convince? The medical industry with its fixation on misunderstanding female bodies or computer science with its fixation on misunderstanding the human factors? 🫠
@grimalkina it's definitely irksome because we end up switching labels every 3-5 years to get ahead of the ruining of words as companies try to pivot to the "good" label so they can ... I don't even know. Is it out of genuine desire to do well or just an exploitive factor? I can never figure it out
A simple core thesis for a lot of my work might be "our beliefs about things really matter for the world we create and they aren't as fixed as we think they are"
Our beliefs about what it means to be smart. To be good. To have a certain professional identity. What we think communication is, what we think we owe each other (or not). Whether or not we believe other people will see it like we do and what we think will happen if they don't.
"It’s this environment and the explanations that it encourages that has always fascinated me [...] we certainly have a responsibility to intervene on a bad environment that’s pushing the wrong sets of beliefs.
The thing is, other people matter. We matter to other people. Our explanations of our own success become judgments of other people--hence the runaway success of terribly maladaptive achievement beliefs like "only people born magical geniuses can succeed in STEM." "