Ben White, MD
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Privademic neuroradiologist. Independent blogger. Author of the definitive & free books on #studentloans. New Program Director of @BUMCRadiology (we're hiring).
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Post-match fourth-year medical students: I cannot stress enough how important it is to build a foundation in personal finance and make a student loan plan. I wrote this book just for you, and every word is available online ad-free. Now is the time. https://t.co/GPW1fBJf2d
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Student loans are now depressingly the largest category of consumer debt outside of mortgages. In 2017, I published a book about managing student loans for medical students and doctors. In early...
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was the latest person to hold up radiology as an example of Jevons Paradox, where increased efficiency can lead to increased demand. Perhaps it will in the future, but certainly not in the past tense that he invoked as "evidence."
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A few further thoughts about NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's farcical description of the impact AI has "already" had in completely revamping the field of radiology. Huang presents radiology as the "evide...
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This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics. - At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled - At Amherst: more than 30 percent - At Stanford: nearly 40 percent Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving
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Jevons Paradox is the observation that efficiency-generating technology can counterintuitively lead to an overall increase in resource consumption. In related news, despite what you read, Radiology is not a case study of AI illustrating Jevons Paradox.
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A few further thoughts about NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's farcical description of the impact AI has "already" had in completely revamping the field of radiology. Huang presents radiology as the "evide...
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Hallucinating about AI https://t.co/gc77wPxavc via @benwhitemd @ABarotchi1 @DevanSinha @DrDatta_AIIMS
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This week, Elon Musk and Nvidia's Jensen Huang discussed AI and the future of technology at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum. Here is Jensen Huang discussing radiology: One thing that I will say, give...
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I've seen the clip shared countless places by credulous people who don't know any better. It seems like Jensen is trying to wave away generalized replacement fears by pretending that radiology is THE canary in the coal mine and we're still here, therefore rainbows and unicorns.
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"Now the studying of the images became so productive they could study more images, study more modalities, spend more time with the patients, and as a result, they were actually accepting more patients." Sheer fantasy.
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, hallucinating about the current impact of AI in radiology: "Radiology, for example, has largely been converted to AI-driven radiology." Is he wrong by ignorance, or is it a cynical PR angle? Rest of the quote is in the article: https://t.co/hZmQuNnPqu
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This week, Elon Musk and Nvidia's Jensen Huang discussed AI and the future of technology at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum. Here is Jensen Huang discussing radiology: One thing that I will say, give...
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One of the most underappreciated dynamics in healthcare is Parkinson’s Law of Triviality: organizations devote disproportionate time to the issues that matter least. In behavioral economics, it’s called “complexity avoidance.” In healthcare, it’s usually called “the weekly
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David Foster Wallace, back in 1996: "It’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money." https://t.co/aomPrlYc0A
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David Foster Wallace, talking about TV and the dawn of the internet during his 1996(!) book tour for Infinite Jest: At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to...
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In The Wealth Ladder, @dollarsanddata proposes a “0.01% rule” as a framework for determining irrelevant/sustainable/affordable spending that scales with wealth. I like the framing Maggiulli uses in this book for putting wealth and spending in context. https://t.co/i4HBSXfySZ
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A framework on how to think about financial wealth, from The Wealth Ladder by Nick Maggiulli: Some people have warped perceptions of wealth and what it means to do well financially. If we map the...
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For some reason, feeling a computer manifesting its judgment and controlling a vehicle in three-dimensional space does feel different than seeing its capabilities in a chat box. https://t.co/wVvqTbOohZ
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I recently experienced a trial of Tesla's full self-driving capability for the first time. It was a decent, if bewildering and somewhat spooky experience. It’s unusual to see a computer do a task in...
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Learning to fail and tolerate failure is an important skill (some thoughts from @pmarca):
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Some career advice from the archives of an otherwise defunct blog from venture capital billaionaire Marc Andresseen: In my opinion, it’s now critically important to get into the real world and really...
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"All the images I’ve seen of places I’ve never been, people I’ve never met create a kind of pseudomemory from a pseudoworld that I don’t participate in." - Karl Ove Knausgaard https://t.co/aFXQ9XQuvZ
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Karl Ove Knausgaard, writing in Harper's earlier this year: It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images of the world and has thus been drawn into the human realm, which now...
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Pilots who can’t actually take the yoke and land planes anymore are de-skilled. If there is a gap between useful AI and magical super-human AI, then mitigating de-skilling and preventing never-skilling are critical components to any future workflow. https://t.co/chafcVz54N
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Popular essays about AI published in our current media like to cycle between utopianism to massive dystopian automation/disruption to the "plea for collaboration." The latter, from "A Better Way to...
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📢 Up next in the RFS Business of Radiology Webinar Series: 🎙️ Dr. Benjamin White – “First, Do Not Harm: Personal Finance Mistakes & Pitfalls” 📅 Tues, Oct. 14 | ⏰ 12–1 PM CST 💻 Free to register and attend on Zoom 🔗 Register: https://t.co/QaHhQnfHUR
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From "Don’t Believe Everything You Think" by Joseph Nguyen: While a job may be demanding, does that mean it must lead to suffering? Or put another way: Is it true that every person who has the same intense job feels the exact same way about that job?
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A gift the whole family will enjoy ✨ Bartesian brings people together, one cocktail at a time.
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📢 Up next in the RFS Business of Radiology Webinar Series: 🎙️ Dr. Benjamin White – “First, Do Not Harm: Personal Finance Mistakes & Pitfalls” 📅 Tues, Oct. 14 | ⏰ 12–1 PM CST 💻 Free to register and attend on Zoom 🔗 Register: https://t.co/QaHhQnfHUR
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The average radiology trainee will finish residency in their early 30s and hopefully enjoy a 30-plus year career if they like it (and otherwise make enough money fast enough to retire early if desired). 30 years is a long time. https://t.co/egOS9Ri79d
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The average radiology trainee will finish residency in their early 30s and hopefully enjoy a 30-plus year career if they like it (and otherwise make enough money fast enough to retire early if...
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