David Wallace-Wells
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Aug
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had done a Green New Deal.
Well I think that's a good place to leave it.
So Natasha Seren, thanks so much for talking.
It's been great.
So, Rachel, a little while ago, you got into a little spat online.
Tell me what that was about.
That's the question that we're going to be talking about today in a bunch of different ways.
It's not entirely new.
People have been trying to track data about their body and their health forever in more systematic ways, maybe over the last 10 years.
But the prospect of AI really kind of changes the landscape here and makes us think again about what the future holds.
We're now looking at a future where many people are telling us that machine learning can process huge amounts of data much more quickly, much more intelligently than anyone has before, and essentially learn things about how we are living, what health is, what illness is, and how we might be able to do better to manage our health going forward.
I'm David Wallace-Wells.
I'm a writer for New York Times Opinion and a columnist for The Times Magazine.
So before we talk about the very now and the kind of distant future, let's talk a little bit just about the recent past.
Over a couple of decades, doctors have become a little bit more skeptical than I think the average layperson about the possibility that
knowing more is always good.
Tell me about where that came from, what that suspicion arises around, and what normies like me don't understand.
Well, let me just pause you there.
Like, how how is that?
How can that be?
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