Alex P. Miller
alexmiller.phd
Alex P. Miller
@alexmiller.phd
disassociated professor, scientist, constrained optimizer

California 🌴 https://alexmiller.phd
Try switching from "Ask" mode to "Agent" mode (if it works on Positron)
June 4, 2025 at 6:22 AM
The end of the treat economy.
May 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Where do you fall on the "ice cream" is good for you spectrum?
Nutrition Science’s Most Preposterous Result: Could Ice Cream Possibly Be Good for You?
Studies show a mysterious health benefit to ice cream. Scientists don’t want to talk about it.
www.theatlantic.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
3. How much of the prior questions matter if people *feel* better about the types of analyses/advice AI is able to provide? Even if the AI doesn't add a ton of health-improving value, there might be a case for smart, accessible, empathic AI to simply improving the customer experience of healthcare.
April 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Other other questions that remain for health + AI

1. How much genuine insight is there to be gleaned by giving AI access to your blood test history?

2. What value does AI bring to addressing those deeper problems? Can an AI-driven brand motivate you to make meaningful changes to your life?
April 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
What's more, the bigger problems healthcare actually needs to solve to add value extend far beyond predicting the future; they are problems of patient compliance, physician communication, empathy, motivation, self-esteem and other human-oriented problems.
April 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I'm not that bullish on companies precisely predicting your future health/diseases with infinite data points about your life. We know many of the most predictive data points already, and they aren't all that precisely predictive of anything.
April 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The open questions for health + AI companies are:

How much data are people willing to share and which comparies are they comfortable sharing it with?

OpenAI? Google? Superpower?
April 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Politics is bigger than one election cycle.
April 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Also a point also made by Jesse Eisenberg in A Real Pain
Digital Ads | A REAL PAIN
YouTube video by SearchlightPictures
www.youtube.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is not a game that can be won though. Playing it means losing it.
April 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What evidence is there that added fluoride improves neurologic functioning?
April 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is kind of a metaphorical version of regularization (could probably made more literal).

We would never say λ=1 is always optimal. There may be contexts where that is good enough, but optimal advice would always be “it depends”.

I view your Q like asking when should λ>1 and when λ<1?
April 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Are you using Cursor or something else?
April 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
P.S. It's not a good sign for Google as an organization that this is the query they are *suggesting* to showcase their new search engine. It means the humans involved aren't even aware and/or are not thinking carefully about these tradeoffs.
March 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Where does Google fit into a world with AI search? I don't know!

But there remains a significant amount of iteration/innovation that remains to find an interaction model that strikes the right balance between acqueiescence and pushback.

I hope Google (or someone else) is up to the challenge.
March 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM