Medicine faces a hard tradeoff between rare misses and costly over-screening
jonc101x · x · 2026-07-27
- The post highlights a classic medical dilemma: many outcomes are unlikely, but missing the dangerous ones can be catastrophic.
- Screening every low-probability condition is also wasteful when most people are asymptomatic.
- The author frames this as a nasty problem in medicine rather than something specific to AI.
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