#162 — Medical Intelligence

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris speaks with Eric Topol about the way artificial intelligence can improve medicine. They talk about soaring medical costs and declining health outcomes in the U.S., the problems of too little and too much medicine, the culture of medicine, the travesty of electronic health records, the current status of AI in medicine, the promise of further breakthroughs, possible downsides of relying on AI in medicine, and other topics.

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0:46.9	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Okay, I'm in lovely London.
0:53.4	Getting ready to record some podcasts. It really is lovely. The weather is perfect.
0:59.9	That makes London especially nice. So I'm going to record a housekeeping here and then get out
1:08.1	of my hotel room. A few things to say that have no relationship to today's podcast.
1:14.0	I am recording this right after the Andy Noe Assault in Portland a few days after.
1:23.6	That has played out on Twitter. This strikes me as entirely the product of Twitter or of social media
1:31.6	in general. This is like a physical manifestation of all that is crazy online. I think these protests
1:40.4	probably wouldn't occur. Andy Noe, the journalist who was attacked, probably wouldn't have been there.
1:49.9	All of the acrimony and insanity that one witnesses in the aftermath would have no forum.
1:56.4	It's a very strange phenomenon. I'll catch you up for those of you who don't know what I'm talking
1:59.9	about. Andy Noe is a journalist and editor at Kuala Lent, which is an online magazine that's
2:07.0	often unfairly described as being conservative. It's conservative in the way that the IDW,
2:14.1	the intellectual dark web is conservative. It's really just a centrist magazine that has
2:23.1	spent a lot of time criticizing the insanity on the left. So it is branded by the left,
2:30.4	certainly the far left as conservative, if not enabling of fascism and racism and xenophobia
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