Favorites: AVs replace human drivers, AI makes radiologists faster
September 24, 2025 — Broadway’s profits lag, Discord drama lingers, and The Argument's comment section AI-doom critique keeps the temperature down.
This is a few weeks old now, but extremely impressive. And if you look at the worst crashes they got into, they’re all caused by an error by the other driver, per a detailed analysis by Understanding AI.
One guy tested with the 24 hour alarm UI (cached) and thought it works there at first but… no, same issue.
I might also label this: “Badge Photo” // “GVC meeting just now”
ffmpeg can be a real pain, I’ve had similar levels of difficulty with HDR encoding, but no LLM has yet offered me a suicide hotline. Maybe I haven’t attempted anything ambitious enough yet. (I sorta assume this post is fake)
Longer Reads
• Almost a decade ago, Geoffrey Hinton said that no one should go into Radiology anymore, given that AI would clearly be able to do it better. And indeed, AI is all over modern radiology, but pay in the field is up. Here’s an article from Works in Progress about why. TL;DR: regulatory/insurance rules require a human in the loop, but those humans are using AI to get way more work done. (src)(cached)
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Good news: the NIH managed to get back on track for research grants, despite the Trump administration throwing a wrench into things. (src)(cached)
– Eli Lilly has a new GLP1 drug that’s a daily pill instead of a weekly shot, with fewer side effects compared to Ozempic. Here’s the paper. (src)(cached)
– The key to moderating is to be like trump on abortion: moderate your substantive position, but do it quietly. Pretty much the opposite of what some democrats do, where they very loudly proclaim their differences from people to their left. (src)(cached)
– I did not realize that part of the reason we can’t have small restaurants in the US is zoning regulations that make it impossible to operate without multiple employees. Here’s the article, Tim Lee quips “Legalize $4 lunches!”. (src)(cached)
– The suburban parts of Japan looks just as unwalkable ugly as the worst US suburbs. (src)(cached)
– Russia entered Estonian airspace, and there was some reminiscing about how when they did that to Turkey in 2015, they were shot down in seconds. (src)(cached)
– If you want to hear more about why I am not particularly worried about AI doom, check out these comments from The Argument’s coverage of the new Yudkowsky book. (src)(cached)
– New reporting that Tom Homan accepted a cash bribe during Trump’s first term, and that Trump shut down the FBI investigation. Generally that’s considered “bad” (src)(cached)
– Ban on new hotel construction in NYC is probably why Broadway shows are struggling to make a profit. (src)(cached)
– $799 for Meta’s new glasses with a display seem like a pretty good deal, per Ben Thompson (src)(cached)
– Waymo’s new safety stats actually undercount the added safety, because the accidents that occurred were essentially always the fault of the other driver. (src)(cached)