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by childintime 52 days ago
I'm kind of the exact opposite: I don't want a doctor between me and my medical AI. Because he limits my agency to heal myself and his value add should be optional, when I need him, after I explored self-treatment options and realize I need a non-patronizing third party to step in.

In my whole life I have experienced the mzungu paradox happening: (mzungu) professionals promise to do a good job, get well paid regardless of results, and in the end most often I end up having to solve everything myself.

Mzungu is the word for white people, though here it is used in the sense of white collar people, which is appropriate as they are all exponents of the white collar financial tribe, the faith in professionalism now vying for world power. Note: power, not competence.