• chunes@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    If it makes anyone feel better, they denied everything when it was humans running the show too

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      I know insurance adjusters, they are under strict rules but whenever they get a chance they do try to approve benefits if it comes to a matter of personal decision making. It’s not that often, but it does happen in the loads and loads of cases that pass through every day.

      Few people realize the scale of these operations.

      An AI system can process all those claims in moments and not only follow guidelines to deny as many as possible, they will do it without feeling a twinge of conscience, and this seemingly small margin of extra denials will likely save the insurance company vast sums of wealth, and all it will cost us, the paying customers, is needless death and suffering.

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    Literally and with no exaggeration, death panels. You know, the ones Republicans were yelling about a few years ago. Those exact fucking ones.

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      Those same ones who screamed about fema prisons… At some point, we’ll catch on that these conspiracy theories are actual plans…

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        16 days ago

        The question is: which came first? The conspiracy theory, or the plan? It could go either way with the party of family values.

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          Ah, see, there’s your problem: you’re using a slight mistranslation. A common mistake. They were never the party of “Family Values”. They’re the party of “Family Valuations”. They exist to find a way to put a number on every family, either “amount of money we can squeeze out of them” or “amount of money we can make by destroying them”, and they get bonuses from their corpocratic upstream if they can manage both at the same time.

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      15 days ago

      Evangelical Christianity. They have always claimed that “absolute evil” exists. They have won the philosophical debate, by demonstrating the Platonic form of evil.

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      These don’t count because they’re just software and the designers can feign complete innocence because of the black-box nature of AI decision-making.

      There are reasons they want AI in charge of so many things. It’s not because they think AI can do a better job.

      And also, AI makes pictures of Trump riding tanks and fist-bumping Jesus so it has to be perfect and awesome, right?

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      Every accusation is a confession, right? That’s how conservatives work. They’re unimaginative people with poor empathy. They think about what they would do and assume that’s what everyone else would do, too. They are trash. Failures. Disappointments.

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        Failures in every way except for gaining power and wealth. A few of them anyway. The sad reality is that throughout history being ruthless always paid off to a large extent.

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          Some of the leadership is getting a lot of wealth, true. The majority seem to be losing more. Loss of government programs (eg: Medicare). Return of preventable diseases (eg: measles). Pollution and climate change.

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            I was referring to those at the top. Most of them will be giant failures in life. But the ones that ‘succeed’ sadly will have more money than God.

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      The fact that there’s shares to be had for denying care is crazy. They know denying care is their business! Meaning that the money they didn’t spend on your care doesn’t go back into the pot for everyone in your group, they are pocketing some of the money whenever they deny someone. That’s it. They don’t help anyone but themselves. There should be a requirement that insurance companies publicly announce how much money they made from denying care

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      The point is fraud. They give you just enough to think they will cover you when you really need it. And by then, they’ve already extracted the optimum amount they were gonna get from you.

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      That’s the best possible outcome.

      The more likely outcome is a lot of people are going to die or suffer needlessly.

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    Well I’m sure it’ll be all fair and definitely not
    DENIED
    DENIED
    DENIED
    DENIED
    DENIED CHACHING
    DENIED CHACHING
    CHACHING
    CHACHING
    CHACHING

    Oh no, that’ll deffo not happen. No way!!!

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      This is just wealth transfer to keep another AI company afloat. Most of them live and die on investor cash, and never turn a profit.

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        Given the answers we know they want this should be a pretty profitable business.

        print “denied”

        Done, and my entire company infastructure is a raspberry pi.

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    what the fuck kind of country looks to save billions of dollars spent on healthcare for their own citizens instead of waste fraud & abuse by the uber wealthy, or the military?

    you can have an insanely strong military without the waste & fraud that exists in the US