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I’d be concerned about the ethics they apply to health products given the changes that have happened over the years with search, email, and android.

xvector 5y ago
It's absurd to complain about this when they are one of the few institutions working on fighting aging, arguably the most important problem humanity has ever faced.
- amatecha 5y ago
  Yeah, it sounds great now. There's no way I want a multinational corp with unprecedented vision into our private lives also researching and producing medical treatments.
  - Jensson 5y ago
    Why would that be a problem? If they can user their ad-money to help cure people how is that a bad thing?
    - Guest42 5y ago
      I think the incremental ROI they would need to involve themselves in a new area would be pretty high. They aren’t going to dedicate a 9-10 digit sum to anything without expecting a much higher sum in return.
      - Jensson 5y ago
        Google started a lot of "moonshot" projects, expensive things that are very unlikely to produce any returns. This is one of those. If Google didn't fund this then this work wouldn't get done. Now it might look promising, but this is a 8 year old part of Google, they have been working for a while now.
  - xvector 5y ago
    This kind of armchair criticism is really frustrating to see. Here, you have a company tackling arguably the most important and devastating problem humanity has ever faced. At least they are doing something that helps humanity solve aging, where almost no one else is. Who cares if it's capitalist-driven? It's not like governments don't, or never, had the opportunity to attempt to tackle the same problem - they simply never took it, focusing on the trivial day-to-day issues, while overwhelmed with bureaucratic tape. And it's not like nonprofits attempting to solve the same problem don't exist either (https://www.sens.org/ https://www.sens.org/, https://www.lifespan.io/ https://www.lifespan.io/), with limited success. A massive financial juggernaut backing this initiative is exactly what it needs. What other solution do you propose?

xvector 5y ago

It's absurd to complain about this when they are one of the few institutions working on fighting aging, arguably the most important problem humanity has ever faced.

amatecha 5y ago
Yeah, it sounds great now. There's no way I want a multinational corp with unprecedented vision into our private lives also researching and producing medical treatments.
- Jensson 5y ago
  Why would that be a problem? If they can user their ad-money to help cure people how is that a bad thing?
  - Guest42 5y ago
    I think the incremental ROI they would need to involve themselves in a new area would be pretty high. They aren’t going to dedicate a 9-10 digit sum to anything without expecting a much higher sum in return.
    - Jensson 5y ago
      Google started a lot of "moonshot" projects, expensive things that are very unlikely to produce any returns. This is one of those. If Google didn't fund this then this work wouldn't get done. Now it might look promising, but this is a 8 year old part of Google, they have been working for a while now.
- xvector 5y ago
  This kind of armchair criticism is really frustrating to see. Here, you have a company tackling arguably the most important and devastating problem humanity has ever faced. At least they are doing something that helps humanity solve aging, where almost no one else is. Who cares if it's capitalist-driven? It's not like governments don't, or never, had the opportunity to attempt to tackle the same problem - they simply never took it, focusing on the trivial day-to-day issues, while overwhelmed with bureaucratic tape. And it's not like nonprofits attempting to solve the same problem don't exist either (https://www.sens.org/ https://www.sens.org/, https://www.lifespan.io/ https://www.lifespan.io/), with limited success. A massive financial juggernaut backing this initiative is exactly what it needs. What other solution do you propose?