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friendzistoday at 5:36 AM1 replyview on HN

> If the whole population had a full body scan every quarter, the “weird” things would feel more like the noise they are.

That's a tautology. We already have quite robust methods for detecting developed anomalies, treating every anomaly below standard human-to-human variation effectively raises the noise floor to already developed anomalies, defeating the purpose of population wide routine scans.


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ramblermantoday at 6:10 AM

If you think the premise and conclusion of Op's statement form a tautology then you agree with him strongly.