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zephen • today at 2:57 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

> You didn’t have a thyroid issue and you spent thousands more on tests the doctor was right that you didn’t need.

Uhhhh, even in the US, we're not talking "thousands" here.

> So… a telephone psychic?

Look, at one level, you can think of LLMs as search with a sometimes useful probability engine sitting on top of it.

As someone who had multiple doctors do their damnedest to kill me on multiple occasions, I was very grateful to have google search back in the day, and you bet your bottom dollar I use LLMs to help me with health issues today. They are often better than most doctors.

Does that put me at risk of doing something stupid? Only if I don't do further due diligence.