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Moving in the right direction (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 23 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Counterpoint:

I diagnosed myself with something pretty significant using the internet, and then I went to get evaluated, and my suspicions were confirmed.

This would prevent a lot of good, in addition to preventing some bad.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I diagnosed myself

    using the internet

    I'm going to assume you researched medical documents, studies, and journals to link things together, and not ask a chat bot "My foot hurts, what is wrong?"

    You're smart enough to self diagnose yourself with readily available information to the public, but not smart enough to not know the difference between that and a chat bot. That's remarkable.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I diagnosed myself

    Congrats, glad your life is hopefully changing for the better because of this.

    I hate taking the wind out of your sails but this is in the area of anecdotal evidence. You are a single person saying this for your specific case. I am sure we will get another few people confirming the same here.

    But what about how many people tried this and got nothing useful out? Or even a misdiagnose? Anyone enthusiastic about this possibility of AI diagnosing people wouldn't really mention this. People like to mention the successes but it needs to be weighed against the failures too, and I don't think there is a good record of that.

    If there is, its probably a medical study and I'd venture a guess that AI did not perform as well as a trained doctor.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I hate taking the wind out of your sails but this is in the area of anecdotal evidence.

    Oh, no, I'm sorry, but it's not. And you're not.

    The thing I self-diagnosed with is actually something that doctors have noted that it's very common for people to diagnose themselves with, and a majority of people with the particular thing I've been diagnosed with have actually never received a formal diagnosis. And we're talking something that's been around as far as we know throughout recorded history, and doctors have just been terrible at diagnosing it.

    Not ONLY does access to AI enable people who have this particular issue to self-diagnose, but it enables the vast numbers of undiagnosed people with it to identify their actual issues and identify the need to get help.

    In fact, several other people in my family independently came to the same conclusion and then got diagnosed with it within the last few years. And I'm talking a family which doesn't regularly interact as a family, so we were all acting basically as people who don't interact with each other.

    But hey, keep on parroting that anecdotal line. Usually it's probably true. But for me and my particular issue, your argument actually falls completely flat.

    I can't even count the literally millions of people who are getting correct diagnoses because they've been denied medical care in the United States for decades and didn't have the ability to get diagnoses and then talked to AIs and were able to get diagnoses.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    I diagnosed myself

    Putting aside the ultra ignorance and/or untreated narcissism just dripping off of a statement like that... If you were curious of the presence of any absolutely blatent bias in your speech, just look at your use of "a lot" and "some" in your final sentence . Wow....

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