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Is it not the saddest thing that our outcomes are so poor that deliberately starving ourselves of data is the safest course of action? Sure, people will die of
by jdashg 7y ago
Is it not the saddest thing that our outcomes are so poor that deliberately starving ourselves of data is the safest course of action?
Sure, people will die of cancer we could have caught, but at least we wouldn't kill a yet-larger group of false positives through mistreatment??
A system with this-perverse of an outcome is broken.
- EdwardDiego 7y agoI suspect your comment is not super related to the article, as very very few people die from biopsies.
- arkades 7y agoIt’s not a broken system. It’s a limitation of the current state of human knowledge. Perfect information about X without the state of knowledge to interpret that information prompts flawed action. You are not living at the end of time, at the peak of human knowledge. There are things we know enough about to interpret; there are things we don’t. The former we test; the latter prompts scientific research.
- reallydude 7y ago> at least we wouldn't kill a yet-larger group of false positives through mistreatment Killing? What are you talking about? Yet-larger? What data are you basing this on?