joshfraser

We've all heard someone say "if only we had caught it sooner".

The stats are pretty staggering. Cancer has a 80% survival rate IF you catch it at stage 1. By the time you get to stage 4 your odds drop to 20%. Despite everyone agreeing that early detection is the key, most doctors will discourage preventative screenings because of fear of "causing anxiety" because of the high false positive rate. You're supposed to just wait until you start pissing blood or something.

But you know what's worse than a little anxiety? Getting cancer and not finding out in time.

The best thing you can do is go sign up for a preventative screening with someone like Prenuvo or Mirovita. The price for elective MRIs has fallen drastically over the last few years. I just checked and right now can get a full body MRI with Mirovita for less than a thousand bucks.

I can't think of a better investment for your health and peace of mind.

"experts warn"

You can tie a photo and biometric data to the public key to make it easy to prove that a key was stolen and needs to be rotated.

A better system would have you hold the private key, only share your public key, and sign messages when you want to make payments or approve things.

This is better than the current state of things where we essentially hand out our private keys to random strangers we meet every day (SSN, credit card numbers, etc).

I agree with your sentiment that there are no perfect solutions.

The interesting question is how to verify who someone is before issuing them a digital ID. Estonia verifies people using their Estonian ID cards, their mobile devices, or biometric data if they have it recorded.

The system is only as strong as its weakest link. ID cards can be faked and mobile devices can be stolen. Biometrics can't be easily faked, but they're horrible to have leaked because you can't change your fingerprints or eyeballs if compromised.

KYC = kill your customer

It's time for us to stop pretending that YC checks do anything except provide an illusion of security while putting people's living in danger.

AI makes it trivial to generate fake documents, so most KYC checks can't actually be trusted to verify your identity. As an example of how ridiculous things have gotten, Anthropic launched their verification program for granting access to their Mythos models. North Korea are experts at bypassing KYC checks and were granted early access while the rest of us were locked out.

These leaks are constant and largely unavoidable. Even the largest, most trusted companies in the world get regularly hacked. My passport was leaked and I've received multiple blackmail attempts from people demanding I pay a ransom. There have been multiple kidnappings that have been related to home addresses and private information being leaked.

The situation is really bad, and there are no easy solutions. The correct answer is probably a new government ID system based on public key encryption with some sort of multi-sig between the individual, the government, and your parents (until you're 18). This won't be easy to roll out, but our current system is broken beyond repair. Unfortunately, things probably need to get way worse before anyone cares enough to fix it.

the counterbalance to the AI doomers has always been the fact that everyone has equal access to AI. i hate this new world where Anthropic believe they should be the ones to decide who gets access to super intelligence and who doesn't.

wait, how many workers fall outside the 16-65 range??

Reinforcement training. Camps that leave too much moop don't get invited back.

Bet Claude could build that for you in 5 mins

data centers drive up the cost of power. basic supply and demand.

instead of blocking data centers, we need to scale up energy production. the solution is to get rid of all the red tape that makes it so impossible to build in America.

quality of life metrics are highly correlated to the availability of energy.

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