Snapshot · Modern Wisdom
Ben Askren used ChatGPT heavily to research his medical condition after waking from the transplant, estimating it was accurate 70–80% of the time when cross-referenced with his doctor.
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Once Ben was through the worst of the delirium, the dominant emotion was not fear or gratitude — it was a kind of profound, stunned confusion. How do you end up with a lung transplant when you have never smoked anything in your life? He still wakes up some mornings and asks himself that. The second urgent question was: what happened while I was asleep for 37 days? He had missed the Bitcoin price moving, significant wrestling events in late May and early June, and — far more importantly — had no awareness of how his children were coping or who was feeding them. His wife's day-by-day journal became his guide back into his own life. Since then, Ben has become an intensive self-researcher, using ChatGPT as a first-pass tool — rating it 70–80% accurate when cross-checked with his physicians [1] — Ben Askren "ChatGPT accuracy: 70–80%: Ben Askren used ChatGPT heavily to research his medical condition after waking from the transplant, estimating it…" 18:19 — and identifying questions to raise at every appointment. His mindset from the moment he regained clarity was not 'why did this happen?' but 'what do I do now?'
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