Haven't done a "proper" Google search in years — medicine may be next
giansegato · x · 2026-08-26
Gian Segato reflects that he hasn't done a "proper" Google search in years: the old workflow of keywords, result pages, forums and Stack Overflow piecing was still fundamentally "a faster horse" — library-style retrieval, not a new paradigm. He asks how many things we treat as natural laws are one model generation from being overhauled.
His concrete bet is medicine as population science: modern healthcare is built around the average patient, with standardized exams, protocols and drugs pattern-matched onto individuals, because n=1 personalized inference is too expensive. If AI can reason over genome, labs, history and literature at once, "standard of care" will sound like "first-page-of-google-results" — not acceleratory, but ontologically different.
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