Kenny comments on MetaMed: Evidence-Based Healthcare - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kenny 31 March 2013 11:09:02PM * 2 points [-]

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Eventually, Watson will enable patients and nurses to input most of the necessary information using natural language.

Dear Bayes, I hope not! I'd hope there's much more precise info that could be input instead.

Comment author: Vaniver 01 April 2013 01:20:53AM 2 points [-]

Dear Bayes, I hope not! I'd hope there's much more precise info that could be input instead.

The question is not what's most useful for the system, but what's most useful for the user.