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Should the government increase funding for mental health research and treatment?

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94%
Yes
6%
No
88%
Yes
5%
No
3%
Yes, our mental healthcare system needs more funding to provide a higher quality of care and services
1%
No, incentivise private companies to address this issue instead
3%
Yes, but only increase funding for personalised care instead of subsidising pharmaceutical companies
0%
No, and too many people are abusing the system by making false disability claims
0%
No, and the government should not be involved in healthcare

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 @9ZL6BT7answered…6 days6D

Yes to more funding, but not for "research and treatment" because that's just code for oharmaceutical companies who are already exploiting the distress of many for profit. Funding should be invested into resolving the social determinants of mental illness.

 @9H76M6Ganswered…12mos12MO

Funding for research and medication, not necessarily the programs they have that don't work (or at least only put people on them that are benefitting)

 @8C5RDBVanswered…4yrs4Y

Yes, also have psychologists full time in every school and focus on well-being rather than prescriptions pushed by big pharma.

 @94739L6answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, and our healthcare system needs a complete overhaul

 @93FJZV7answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, but do not subsidise Israeli pharmaceutical companies (Ireland-based, Irish-founded only, and non-Israeli MNCs with significant Irish operations and no Israeli operations).

 @8Q5RDNVanswered…4yrs4Y

No, privatise

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 @SeahorseFrankie from Illinois linked…11mos11MO

AI predicts when you will die

Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses the story of a person's life to predict their future and it is accurate about 78 per cent of the time.They now have a model that understands everyday language and can guess at things like if someone might die young or how much they could earn in their lifetime.The study shows being a boy, having mental health problems or working skilled jobs can mean shorter lifespans, while earning lots of money or leading other people can add years to your life. The system, life2vec, treats each part of your life story like bits in a sentence to guess what's coming up based on whats already happened.Scientists have developed a new AI system called life2vec that uses data from 2008 to 2016 to predict simple questions like "death within four years?" for any given person. Scarily enough, it correctly guessed who would die by 2020 over three-quarters of the time.Sune Lehmann, the lead researcher, says that the system isn't open to the public or companies, to meet GDPR standards and keep private information safe: "We are actively working on ways to share some of the results more openly, but this requires further research to be done in a way that can guarantee the privacy of the people in the study."The report was published in Nature Computational Science. Sune Lehmann, a professor at Denmark Technical University, explained how life2vec works. He said it's similar to language models like ChatGPT: it learns from a vast amount of pre-existing written data, except life2vec is taught using data from people's lives.Sentences like "In September 2012, Francisco received twenty thousand Danish kroner as a guard at a castle in Elsinore" or "During her third year at secondary boarding school, Hermione followed five elective classes." were given different tokens by the scientists. These pieces of data were all mapped out in relation to each other.

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