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Your imagination's talent for dystopia is both startling and frightening.


They could then also force people to eat healthy (i.e., at Whole Foods) or else lose their health coverage! ;)


I’m imagining buying more red meat causing your premiums to rise.


And with an advertising/product/consumer influence infrastructure in place they could just arbitrate that indirectly with getting you to consume certain products under certain circumstances to affect certain conditions in both individual and collective behavior towards a desired state.


> Triage by algorithm would remove one of the most disturbing responsibilities in medicine.

It would shift the responsibility - to the algorithm writers. It doesn't remove it.




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