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hobbers t1_ja9hki0 wrote
Reply to comment by Infernalism in The Dream of Mini Nuclear Plants Hangs in the Balance by OutlandishnessOk2452
Safety or risk mitigation should always be quantified.
About 40k - 50k people die every year in automobile collisions. We could mitigate most of that, but we don't, because we judge it not worthy.
hobbers t1_irhbgtc wrote
Reply to comment by Buttons840 in AI tool can scan your retina and predict your risk of heart disease ‘in 60 seconds or less’ by Abhi_mech007
I doubt it's a "heart problem showing up in your eyeball". Rather, it's likely that the eyeball is just a convenient place to non-invasively look at the structure of small blood vessels. And various cardiovascular conditions show up in small blood vessels all over your body. It likely has nothing to do with your eyeballs specifically. I.e. if a portion of your upper arm were translucent, this same methodology could likely be applied there as well. It's just that a translucent upper arm is not part of most human's biology.
There are already well established methods of examining the back of your eyeball for other evidence of other conditions.
hobbers t1_jaaec5u wrote
Reply to comment by Infernalism in The Dream of Mini Nuclear Plants Hangs in the Balance by OutlandishnessOk2452
We don't have legislation requiring cars to be safe enough to not kill 40k - 50k people a year. That's all of us together deciding it's not worthy.