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What makes you assume that greediest and tyrannical people are the ones who would be preferentially selected for in a system that offers increased healthspan /

What makes you assume that greediest and tyrannical people are the ones who would be preferentially selected for in a system that offers increased healthspan / lifespan? It's my presumption that these services are expensive now but once proven will become commodity. In sufficient time it would be as cheap/free as penicillin or a multivitamin.

gdbsjjdn 1y ago
Who's getting these services now? The people with the most money. You can't just extrapolate any technology out and say "one day it'll be cheap", this is a labour-intensive process. MRI machines are not getting Moore's Lawed
- htss2013 1y ago
  What is the fundamental reason why MRI machines could not be produced in higher quantities at much cheaper unit costs?
  - BizarroLand 1y ago
    Demand. When the first 5,000 units cost a mil a piece, few manufacturers are going to go all in, especially when a product improvement could make their systems obsolete before they're finished being built. If you had a large country like china or the us or some other big baller walk in and say, "make 5,000 MRIs to these specs and we'll buy them" then by the end that manufacturer could quite possibly crank out another 5,000 for comparative pennies and flood the market, but until someone puts a few billion on the line it's not going to happen.
- LargoLasskhyfv 1y ago
  > MRI machines are not getting Moore's Lawed Are you sure about that? Commercial: https://hyperfine.io https://hyperfine.io 'DIY': https://hackaday.com/2015/05/04/hackaday-prize-entry-a-low-cost-open-source-mri/ https://hackaday.com/2015/05/04/hackaday-prize-entry-a-low-c... https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/building-an-mri-machine-(for-$100)/ https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/building-an-mri-machi... https://www.ismrm.org/22/program-files/ET-08.htm https://www.ismrm.org/22/program-files/ET-08.htm https://github.com/mri4all https://github.com/mri4all https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385920900_ezyMRI_How_to_build_an_MRI_machine_from_scratch_--_Experience_from_a_four-day_hackathon https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385920900_ezyMRI_Ho... ^^^^ Those actually aren't the ones I remembered, there was something in between that 'DIY' stuff, and the commercial thing a few years ago. ISTR also commercial, but slightly less bulky. But can't be bothered to search for that now. (Probably something related to https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rebco+mri https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rebco+mri ) There is also commercial mobile stuff for veterinary use.

gdbsjjdn 1y ago

Who's getting these services now? The people with the most money. You can't just extrapolate any technology out and say "one day it'll be cheap", this is a labour-intensive process. MRI machines are not getting Moore's Lawed

htss2013 1y ago
What is the fundamental reason why MRI machines could not be produced in higher quantities at much cheaper unit costs?
- BizarroLand 1y ago
  Demand. When the first 5,000 units cost a mil a piece, few manufacturers are going to go all in, especially when a product improvement could make their systems obsolete before they're finished being built. If you had a large country like china or the us or some other big baller walk in and say, "make 5,000 MRIs to these specs and we'll buy them" then by the end that manufacturer could quite possibly crank out another 5,000 for comparative pennies and flood the market, but until someone puts a few billion on the line it's not going to happen.
LargoLasskhyfv 1y ago
> MRI machines are not getting Moore's Lawed Are you sure about that? Commercial: https://hyperfine.io https://hyperfine.io 'DIY': https://hackaday.com/2015/05/04/hackaday-prize-entry-a-low-cost-open-source-mri/ https://hackaday.com/2015/05/04/hackaday-prize-entry-a-low-c... https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/building-an-mri-machine-(for-$100)/ https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/building-an-mri-machi... https://www.ismrm.org/22/program-files/ET-08.htm https://www.ismrm.org/22/program-files/ET-08.htm https://github.com/mri4all https://github.com/mri4all https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385920900_ezyMRI_How_to_build_an_MRI_machine_from_scratch_--_Experience_from_a_four-day_hackathon https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385920900_ezyMRI_Ho... ^^^^ Those actually aren't the ones I remembered, there was something in between that 'DIY' stuff, and the commercial thing a few years ago. ISTR also commercial, but slightly less bulky. But can't be bothered to search for that now. (Probably something related to https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rebco+mri https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rebco+mri ) There is also commercial mobile stuff for veterinary use.