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It seems extremely unlikely this would happen- both because of lack of political will, and because this would be considered a huge intrusion into people's priva
by dekhn 3y ago
It seems extremely unlikely this would happen- both because of lack of political will, and because this would be considered a huge intrusion into people's privacy.
- brightlancer 3y ago> this would be considered a huge intrusion into people's privacy. It _would be_ a huge intrusion into people's privacy.
- londons_explore 3y agoBut if told "you can either get cancer and die at age 65, or live to 85 if you are happy for scientists to look at what you eat and drink", the vast majority of people would choose the latter.
- itishappy 3y agoWhat's actually offered is "you can get cancer and die at age 65 either way but if you let us take notes we might not poison your grandkids the same way," and that's much less convincing.
- gruez 3y ago>or live to 85 if you are happy for scientists to look at what you eat and drink But we don't know that's true with anywhere near degree of certainly. Pretending that it is borderline lying and only serves to weaken trust in institutions.
- dekhn 3y agoYou are almost certainly underestimating just how much opposition there would be to this if the government tried to do it. I worked in health-adjacent fields for several decades and it took me quite some time to recognize that some of the best ideas for public health are simply non-viable due to political opposition, and "have the government set up an epidemiological wing that does data science on private data to improve health" is definitely one of them.
- bombcar 3y ago“You can either die of obesity related complications early or eat healthy”. Many many many pick obesity.