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In my work, letters to referring doctors are proof of evidence that I did something for the patient. Speech-to-text tools now turn my medical consult into words (and let me look at the actual person, which is nice). The other doctor won’t bother that it’s automatically written as long as it’s accurate. The problem for my profession will arise when a little agent swarm calculates the risks for one policy over the other, asks for a scan and prescribes medication. This will be soon I think, although the data to train those specialized swarms is still protected by law.

Tangentially related, can recommend Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow from Ted Hughes. Dark poems, you’ll like. You’ll be able to feel like a crow after reading it.

Love the technical achievement but genuinely wonder why you would send a message to another kind of inbox?

Amsterdam will starve a bit these days, rest of the Netherlands has no supermarket monoculture.

If you read open that much it looks even weirder. What will be the next fashion tech word?

A few years ago I thought through the concept of time and developed the fragile but persistent belief that time is a human invention and not a fundamental part of the natural world. It was a very unsettling experience, until Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time restored my sense of mental sanity. I’m currently rereading it because it made me an instant fanboy of Rovelli and this is one of his most tender books. The prose gently rocks you while delivering a complete shift in worldview.