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Specifically pharmaceutical products. "This pill you don't know about will stave off a genetic condition you don't know you have." Cognitive dissonance overwhe

Specifically pharmaceutical products. "This pill you don't know about will stave off a genetic condition you don't know you have." Cognitive dissonance overwhelms me.

shadowgovt 7y ago
That actually sounds pretty useful if they can get away from the problem of conflating correlation for causation, but it's probably not a problem you can solve with big data alone for exactly that reason.
stevenhuang 7y ago
What are you trying to say. Won't that at least be a beneficial outcome of having all this data being mined?
- Yizahi 7y ago
  Aaand your deductible has now tripled, enjoy being broke and temporarily healthy. :) (please don't tell me that googlenet would never sell/barter/exchange this data or analyzed results based on it).
  - username90 7y ago
    > please don't tell me that googlenet would never sell/barter/exchange this data or analyzed results based on it Why would they be any less trustworthy than the hospitals or insurance companies who normally has this data?
    - Yizahi 7y ago
      First and main point - currently it is either hospitals+insurance have this data or hospitals+insurance+google. Even without paranoia or conspiracies it is logical that N entities is more trustworthy than N+1. And another thing - hospitals are much more regulated (insurance - I don't know) by government and due to their byzantine structure and ancient IT systems it is harder to do mass extraction of data. One patients data - easy, a small bribe to one or two humans and it's yours. Data on million of patients - much harder. Google on the other hand has means AND motive to do anything with any amount of personal data. They can set high frequency trading with it if they want. Nothing to stop them, zero regulation, offshore management, offshore funding.
      - dodobirdlord 7y ago
        Perhaps you would benefit from reading up on what a Business Associate under HIPAA is.

Specifically pharmaceutical products. "This pill you don't know about will stave off a genetic condition you don't know you have." Cognitive dissonance overwhelms me.

shadowgovt 7y ago

That actually sounds pretty useful if they can get away from the problem of conflating correlation for causation, but it's probably not a problem you can solve with big data alone for exactly that reason.

stevenhuang 7y ago

What are you trying to say. Won't that at least be a beneficial outcome of having all this data being mined?

Yizahi 7y ago
Aaand your deductible has now tripled, enjoy being broke and temporarily healthy. :) (please don't tell me that googlenet would never sell/barter/exchange this data or analyzed results based on it).
- username90 7y ago
  > please don't tell me that googlenet would never sell/barter/exchange this data or analyzed results based on it Why would they be any less trustworthy than the hospitals or insurance companies who normally has this data?
  - Yizahi 7y ago
    First and main point - currently it is either hospitals+insurance have this data or hospitals+insurance+google. Even without paranoia or conspiracies it is logical that N entities is more trustworthy than N+1. And another thing - hospitals are much more regulated (insurance - I don't know) by government and due to their byzantine structure and ancient IT systems it is harder to do mass extraction of data. One patients data - easy, a small bribe to one or two humans and it's yours. Data on million of patients - much harder. Google on the other hand has means AND motive to do anything with any amount of personal data. They can set high frequency trading with it if they want. Nothing to stop them, zero regulation, offshore management, offshore funding.
    - dodobirdlord 7y ago
      Perhaps you would benefit from reading up on what a Business Associate under HIPAA is.