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George Montañez
Date
January 7, 2019

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Bayes' Theorem, bias, Featured, Longform, Machine Learning, Minorities, Prejudice, Racism, Social Factors, Technocracy}

AI: Think About Ethics Before Trouble Arises

_{A machine learning specialist reflects on Micah 6:8 as a guide to developing ethics for the rapidly growing profession} _{George Montañez
January 7, 2019

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

To love mercy sometimes means to give up efficiency. It could mean losing a few points of model accuracy by refusing to take into account features that invade privacy or are proxies for race, leading to discriminatory model behavior. But that’s OK. The merciful are willing to give up some of their rights and advantages so they can help others.

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Mind Matters
Date
November 16, 2018

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
_longform, Physicalism, Placebo effect, Ted Kaptchuk}

Yes, the Placebo Effect Is Real, Not a Trick

_{But the fact that the mind acts on the body troubles materialists. Such facts, they say, require revision} _{Mind Matters
November 16, 2018

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Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

The fact that you may start to get better if you believe you are receiving treatment is one of the best-attested facts in medicine. Despite that, far from being accepted, this “placebo effect” is seen in many quarters as, at best, a “pesky thing” and at worst, a “trick,” if not a “fraud.” Perhaps that is due to a drive to reduce medical science to the purely physical.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 8, 2018

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Social Factors

Tagged
brain, loneliness}

Researchers find loneliness is hard on the brain

_{What we think about our lives really does affect our health.} _{Denyse O'Leary
November 8, 2018

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Medicine and Health, Neuroscience, Social Factors}

What’s less often recognized is that loneliness could cause be a cause of brain damage as well, at least if we go by rodent studies.

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Mind Matters
Date
October 17, 2018

Categorized
Data Privacy, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Anonymity, medical data, Privacy}

The $60 Billion-Dollar Medical Data Market is Coming Under Scrutiny

_{As a patient, you do not own the data and are not as anonymous as you think} _{Mind Matters
October 17, 2018

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Data Privacy, Medicine and Health}

Data management companies can come to know a great deal about you; they just don’t know your name—unless, of course, there is a breach of some kind. Time Magazine reported in 2017 that “Researchers have already re-identified people from anonymized profiles from hospital exit records, lists of Netflix customers, AOL online searchers, even GPS data of New York City taxi rides.” One would expect detailed medical data to be even more revelatory.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 5, 2018

Categorized
Medicine and Health, Natural Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
brain loss, epilepsy}

Boy loses large hunk of brain

_{And is “doing just fine”} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 5, 2018

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Medicine and Health, Natural Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

When pundits talk glibly of creating artificial minds or claim that consciousness is an illusion, it might help to remember that few predicted cases like this could exist and few thought that high tech diagnostics would lead to their discovery.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 31, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Medicine and Health, Social Factors

Tagged
Adam Rogers, Big Data, medical research, Privacy}

Better medicine through machine learning?

_{Data can be a dump or a gold mine} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 31, 2018

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Machine Learning, Medicine and Health, Social Factors}

The biggest problem today isn’t the sheer mass of data so much as the difficulty of determining what it is worth. The answer lies, unfortunately, in the undone studies and the unreported events. Machine learning will be a much greater help when those problems are addressed.