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If nothing else, it could allow you to make different decisions in your life. If my mind is going to be gone in 10 years, I'm sure as shit not saving for long term retirement anymore.
But what if you’re a false positive? What opportunities dis you forgo by choosing a path based on incorrect foreknowledge?
The idea of knowing you're going to get dementia sometime in the next decade is interesting. But I don't think it's straight-forward as to whether or not knowing is a good idea. It's also a little amusing to take the idea to its logical extreme: What if it becomes a societal norm to know? Would public venues allow soon-to-be dementia patients line cutting priority etc? Think amusement parks, transit reservations, hot…
I would like to know how many US political leaders currently have dementia. I bet more than 10% of Congress.
Is there any meaningful benefit to knowing you have Parkinson's a few years earlier when there's no cure to it?
Realistic: Doesn't earlier "treatment" of Parkinson's Disease yield better outcomes? I.e. dopamine supplements, etc.
> Using a type of AI known as ‘machine learning’, computers are now able to uncover hidden information about the whole body from these images alone. So now computers use AI to do something, interesting... I always liked how it's always "AI did X" or "AI discovered Y", but never a "crane built a building".
> Using a type of AI known as ‘machine learning’, computers are now able to uncover hidden information about the whole body from these images alone. So now computers use AI to do something, interesting... I always liked how it's always "AI did X" or "AI discovered Y", but never a "crane built a building".
E.g.1: Galileo saw Jupiter, not The telescope saw Jupiter.
E.g.2: Joe built the wall, not The crane built the wall.
In this case, AI is the thinker, not a human, hence the phrasing.
A human creating the AI does not remove the attribution either, just as we never say Joe's mother built the wall just because Joe was created by his mother.
The idea of knowing you're going to get dementia sometime in the next decade is interesting. But I don't think it's straight-forward as to whether or not knowing is a good idea. It's also a little amusing to take the idea to its logical extreme: What if it becomes a societal norm to know? Would public venues allow soon-to-be dementia patients line cutting priority etc? Think amusement parks, transit reservations, hot…
The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. Matthew 6:22
I find it oddly reductive, unsubstantiated, and meaningless.
Perhaps I'm not the intended reader :P
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We already do that. We think you may get cancer or dementia, we deny you insurance converge and proceed to drain you of opportunity
> We think you may get cancer or dementia, we deny you insurance converge Pre-existing conditions can't be used to deny health insurance coverage in the United States. This has been true since 2014. Please don't perpetuate the myth that people should avoid screenings for fear of losing health coverage.
How much opportunity is drained form everyone who relies on insulin to survive every month?