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

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Response rates from 161k New Zealand voters.

91%
Yes
9%
No
84%
Yes
8%
No
6%
Yes, our mental healthcare system needs more funding to provide a higher quality of care and services
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No, incentivise private companies to address this issue instead
1%
Yes, but only increase funding for personalised care instead of subsidising pharmaceutical companies
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No, and too many people are abusing the system by making false disability claims
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No, and the government should not be involved in healthcare

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 @6JBDGM8answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, and fund this by drastically increasing tax on alcohol. And legalising canibus and taxing that too.

 @9RWHKMKanswered…5mos5MO

Perhaps. Under the Labour government a huge fund was set aside (2.9B?), a huge study was done, and then they put the report in a drawer (marked "too hard") and didn't use the money for its intended purpose. The government can't be trusted to do this. Andrew Little was less than useless.

 @9MN8GN9answered…7mos7MO

I believe mental health is important. But people who attention seek and say their mental health is bad are just making the most of taking advantage of money given to suppport.

 @9J78RN2 answered…11mos11MO

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 @9HK9YD6 answered…1yr1Y

Support of menstrual of health dramatic minds if independent of mental drug free actions by legend former US president Donald Trump and former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson talking with white House issued

 @9G5S5WGanswered…1yr1Y

They need to fund programs like Mike King's one instead of coming up with their own expensive and useless ones

 @9G4QD92answered…1yr1Y

Yes, more funding for free psychologist, wellness centre, education on nutrition and exercise in schools and more selfcare. Teach people to take responsibility and heal past childhood/ generational trauma

 @9G4N55Sanswered…1yr1Y

New Zealand should follow world leaders in efficient mental health services so that New Zealanders get the best most cost effective up-to-date treatments, so that tax payer money isn't wasted in this area.

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 @SeahorseFrankie from Illinois linked…1yr1Y

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.