MegaMaker - Everyone everyone GPT3

GPT3 (and GPT chat) has definitely captured the imagination of the tech/startup community.

Jon (my business partner) got it to "write a sonnet about Transistor.fm podcast hosting, in the voice of Shakespeare:"

It's pretty good!

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Don't get medical advice from GPT3

I'm seeing people use GPT3 as the new "WebMD":

Ryan Florence @ryanflorence For a couple years I've had some symptoms that took me multiple doctor visits and lots of googling to finally figure out. I dropped my symptoms into the GPT-3 and knew immediately. Same story, different problem, for my wife. Punched in symptoms, GPT-3 knew it immediately, too. December 2nd 2022 98 Retweets 1,381 Likes

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Getting medical advice from GPT3 seems like a very bad idea.
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Paraphrasing Ben Thompson (Stratechery):

He continues:

The GPT3 model wasn't designed to provide accurate medical advice. In the past, it has made "dangerous oversimplifications" when it comes to health. (Source)

Self-diagnosis is already a problem on the internet; I hope GPT doesn't make it worse.

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Public healthcare is good for entrepreneurs

Here's a recent comment from Brian Casel on the Open Threads podcast:

Personally, I'm a big fan of Canada's public healthcare. I don't think I would have started a business if we hadn't had it.

Whenever I talk to my founder/entrepreneur friends in the USA, healthcare coverage is one of their biggest stressors.

Jonnie Hallman @destroytoday Imagine how many more people in the US would start their own business or freelance full-time if healthcare and taxes weren’t an issue—if you were incentivized to go out on your own. I think about this constantly and it kills me. Jonnie Hallman @destroytoday Hot take: I feel like the US doesn’t want small businesses or freelancers to succeed. I’d never leave Brooklyn, but if relocating was on the table and I were starting a new app, I’d consider moving to another country for 18 months to get it off the ground. February 28th 2018 16 Retweets 106 Likes

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Mike McDerment, the founder of Freshbooks, says:

Over the years, I've seen many of my US-based solopreneur friends go back to paid employment, simply because they couldn’t get health insurance any other way.

John Dearie @John_Dearie Universal healthcare is not socialism -- it is utterly supportive of capitalism by allowing would-be entrepreneurs with great new ideas to leave their corporate jobs to launch a new business without putting their or their family's health coverage in jeopardy. It is pro-dynamism. January 15th 2021 702 Retweets 3,530 Likes

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This isn't to say that Canada's healthcare system is perfect (it's not). But for entrepreneurs, the peace of mind that comes from not having to get private health insurance is massive.

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That's it for today.

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Justin Jackson

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