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Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction

I didn't recognise the '10 seconds of human consideration' claim. I found this ProPublica report on it: How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them

There a former Cigna doctor says “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.” They claim to have seen documents for a two month period that put the average at 1.2 seconds per review. That's using a specific review system that processed 300,000 claims over that period.

They don't mention if there were other claims processed with different methods but still, the OP article seemed to be generous with that claim.

I don't know what the "90%-error-rate AI" claim is about though. It'd be nice if the sources were actually cited.

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What is this cylindrical metal thing found with machinist tools?

I think it's a cylindrical square. It can be set on one end on a surface plate to find 90°. Because it can be rotated, it can be checked for error. I think they're often made by apprentice machinists, hence the name and date stamped in it.

Example commercial version: https://www.mscdirect.com/product/details/06504302?item=06504302

Example use of one with a surface gauge as a squareness comparator: https://youtu.be/53q6kVX9gjM?t=1244