carolinaollive
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A few things I consider important:
- It needs to be cleaned with cold water and ideally hypoallergenic soap before every reinsertion throughout the day;
- It needs to be sterilized at least once a month, ideally two (before starting monthly use, after ending monthly use), with boiling water or sterilizing tablets - which maybe would be a more ideal solution, since you can always provide the sterilizing tablets with the menstrual cups as well.
A personal anecdote and other women's anecdotes:
- A few women with PCOS have reported feeling more cramps during periods by using menstrual cups (and there is maybe unreliable sources claiming that up to 20% of women in India, for example, suffer from PCOS);
- I have personally stopped using it and noticed way less pain from cramps, which were oftentimes debilitating, during periods, unsure if causation;
- Other women -- and it seems a majority were mothers --, claimed to have suffered from uterine prolapse, and swollen/damaged cervix.
I am not claiming these anecdotes are significant, but they are worth looking at while attempting to create a program.
At this point, it feels like the bottleneck being "talent" vs. "context" or anything else is just semantics.
Talent that has years of experience but doesn't have the specific knowledge I want is not the talent I need. I need a different talent. Therefore, it's still a talent bottleneck.
Maybe it would be better if AI safety orgs could be extremely more exact about what talent means to them, but that also leaves the field fairly open to a type of gaming a lot of people seem to want to avoid.
The field does act like a false positive hire is immensely worse than a false negative, though, which might not be the case.
I don't have a point, these are just random observations.