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  • The French retirement age is a bit of a problem.

    France partly has a pay as you go system, meaning current working people are paying the pensions of retired people.

    France also has an aging population, so there will be fewer people paying for more people. And that’s a problem, and you can really only solve it by increasing income, decreasing spending, or having fewer retired people (and raising the age is the most ethical way to do that).

    You can’t do nothing and expect a pay-as-you-go system to keep working with an aging population.




  • Also, annoyingly, most people are absolutely shit at identifying bias, on both sides of the argument.

    Personal example: when I went to the doctor with a painful lower back, and a weirdly pulling muscle above my ass, he said it was very likely due to my weight.

    Well, that was obviously fucking bullshit weight bias, and he wasn’t taking me seriously because I’m a woman. Besides, I have PCOS, so I can’t help it.

    Except when I lost the weight, the pain went away. And so did the sore knees, and the shortness of breath I didn’t even notice I had. And the PCOS complaints got much better. So… Yeah, it wasn’t a biased doctor, the guy was entirely correct, I just didn’t like the answer.

    And at other times, medical science is just straight up wrong, and we found out after it improved. I had some amazing semi-permanent birth control implants, that unfortunately turned out to occasionally rip your insides to shreds. Whoops. So I got them removed, which sucked ass. Was that bias? Or just medical science advancing?


  • Your argument would be good, if LLMs got it right. But they will just as happily inform you that drinking your own urine is good for you, if you ask them in the right way. A doctor will always tell you no. An LLM will inform you about the dangers of vaccines and how there are many sources that say they give you autism, whereas a doctor won’t.

    Getting validation from the lying machine is not a way to do healthcare. The LLM confirming that you have some condition will not change anything, just like me and my forum buddies all self-diagnosing autism, and ADD doesn’t actually help and actually causes a lot of harm.