David Wallace-Wells
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Aug
David Wallace-Wells’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And there's no conceptual reason why that would not be possible.
But then in the present tense, that just makes me think, okay.
So maybe the info that we get from this full body scan isn't so great.
Maybe even the info that we're getting directly from our little wearables isn't so great.
Maybe certain kinds of people are putting too much faith in that information and reorganizing their lives in ways that may not ultimately benefit them, may even cause them some harm.
Nevertheless, we're talking about a huge amount of new information being generated,
At the very least, for some robots to chew through, to make some hypotheses about correlations and things we may do to improve our health.
And I just think, I don't know, isn't that good?
But it does seem, at least the way that you're sketching it out, then theoretically concerning that so much of this...
you know, self-monitoring is taking place in a sort of sociological context in which people are skeptical of doctors.
They may not be actually even providing that information to any centralized source that can make use of it in a meaningful way.
They're also doing a lot of stuff.
I don't mean to, like, you know, stereotype all of
Silicon Valley Twitter or whatever, but they're doing a lot of like gray market peptides.
They're, you know, they're doing biohacking of various kinds and they are doing so thinking that they are like outmaneuvering, outsmarting the slow moving scientific establishment, not that they are serving some collective good.
And that raises a couple of big questions, one of which is like, to what extent are we
aggregating this data in a way that will be made useful to the population as a whole.
But it's also like, who are the people who are making sense of it?
Is it, you know, somebody who thinks he feels really great after having adjusted his sleep schedule in X way and is broadcasting that on social media?
Or is it being processed through someone who can meaningfully make sense of that data for people who aren't already sort of drinking the Kool-Aid?
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