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If i see a doctor look up something I immediately trust them more. It shows that they are open to more that the bare minimum and willing to learn if needed.
There's this meme of 'why is ChatGPT expert on everything but the area I have knowledge of'.
What you're describing is a professional looking up aditional info, with ability to sift through and judge the result, and I appreciate it in specialists of all the professions.
This is however largely not what this meme is about as in my experience cobbling together random snippets of code rarely if ever works.
That's just Gell-Mann amnesia applied to chat bots.
I didn't know about the meme but for a while, YouTube recommended me reviews of the book Sapiens which tries to encompass all of human history, starting from evolution and everyone was like "I learned alot but in the field of my experience, it's garbage" and I felt like c'mon, don't you see the pattern
I switched newspapers when I noticed that every time my newspaper write about something I actually knew about, they wrote garbage.
Sapiens does present some really powerful ideas, though. I enjoyed it a lot, but the book clearly glosses over a lot of details. Then again, it tries to tackle a ridiculously big scope, so I can see how it can't get into all of the details. I still consider it a worthy read despite its shortcomings. But read it more for the ideas than for the facts.
Isn't the "idea" a very eurocentric understanding of progress and how colonialism is actually good because it civilized the colonized? But I'm sure there is more to the book than that
I went to a dr recently and he asked why I was taking a medication that was for something I wasn’t diagnosed with. I told him it was because it’s found to also improve symptoms of a different condition.
Later I went back and he was looking at my chart and mentioned that the medication I was on was known to help a lot of other issues and listed off a bunch that I knew about but didn’t tell him.
Obviously he looked it up at some point based on my comments.
I like that dr and wish he wasn’t a specialist.
The wishing they weren't a specialist is so real. I wish my psychiatrist was also my GP and my therapist. I've found out through her about diagnoses that are in my chart that nobody ever bothered to tell me about and that I overlooked in there, as well as about off label medication uses that you mentioned and medication or illness interactions I never would've guessed. Outside her domain too, e.g. between my thyroid meds and ibuprofen. All the GPs I've ever been to are either jaded, refuse to learn or admit you might know something they dont, or don't take you seriously.