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It’s basically a no go market. Patients don’t have the funds themselves. Those that do simply hire a dedicated, private staff.
Children don’t want to pay for it since they view it as there parent’s expense.
Everyone views it as a cost that the healthcare system should cover - even though there isn’t money for it.
I actually ran a health tech startup in this space within the past decade. It’s basically a no go market. Patients don’t have the funds themselves. Those that do simply hire a dedicated, private staff. Children don’t want to pay for it since they view it as there parent’s expense. Everyone views it as a cost that the healthcare system should cover - even though there isn’t money for it.
My optimism about tech used to be because I saw tech as solving humanities most pressing needs (even if it usually has unintended consequences like pollution, etc.) But now I see tech (most of the time, obviously I'm speaking in broad generalities) as not even bothering with pressing problems because you can make more money hijacking dopamine pathways to sell ads.
I mean, when I think of tech that would actually improve my life I think about things like a clothes-folding machine, not a program that writes mediocre poetry.
Someone noticed rashes showing up on an elderly person and installed an in bathroom hidden camera. They were leaving them in the bathroom for hours and exiting/re-entering through the window.
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Err, how? They are doing it voluntarily. They want these jobs. They can work at other jobs too, but that would be an education startup opportunity.
Voluntarily? As in they could just stop working and they'd be fine?
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vandalism as a service
i live in houston which was just hit by a hurricane - one of the upsides being most of the billboards have been shredded, which is a nice improvement over mind polluting ads thanks hurricane beryl
* The few you do still see today are legacy billboards that date from when the legislation was passed, around 1965.
Agree. Simple stuff that people really need is missing. I mean really simple. I can't read product labels even with serious myopia and a magnifying lens. Only Trader Joe's makes readable shelf signage. Use-by dates take 30 seconds to even find. And there are tons more things. I made a list ... It's getting longer. Thanks for posting this.
A program that parses an arbitrary shelf label and then displays a large-print normalized representation (like the nutrition label) would be valuable.
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Like Firefox's Reader View for real life.
can i please also have ublock for real life, i am so tired of outdoor advertising, it's basically the only place i see ads now
I actually ran a health tech startup in this space within the past decade. It’s basically a no go market. Patients don’t have the funds themselves. Those that do simply hire a dedicated, private staff. Children don’t want to pay for it since they view it as there parent’s expense. Everyone views it as a cost that the healthcare system should cover - even though there isn’t money for it.
Your response makes sense to me, but it also highlights why I've become so disillusioned with "tech" generally over the course of my 25 year career. My optimism about tech used to be because I saw tech as solving humanities most pressing needs (even if it usually has unintended consequences like pollution, etc.) But now I see tech (most of the time, obviously I'm speaking in broad generalities) as not even bothering…
I think about this constantly, and it's a funny example because apparently the math involved for figuring out how to fold clothes is basically an unsolved problem. As I understand it the robotics -- also a very hard unsolved problem -- are the easy part, which should emphasize how horribly hard this problem is.
Several other things: 1) I recently saw a LinkedIn lunatic claim laundry was already automated, because laundry machines exist (way to out yourself as someone who never helps with laundry)
> mediocre poetry
2) I refuse to call language models "intelligence" until they can at least meaningfully contribute to the design of novel devices like the robots we are discussing. If it can't invent, it's not intelligent! Intelligent things are capable of novelty, not only regurgitating existing witnessed patterns.
You've got it all wrong. Entrepreneurs aren't short on ideas; they're short on ideas that will make them rich. Why/Who's paying for a robot to wipe grandpa's butt when "there's a huge volume of exploited laborers keeping the system afloat"?
You could advertise the robot then send and exploited laborer to do the robot job as a success story, could have robot operators in far away lands and for select elderly a robot suit would be sufficient.