Not if that 1% (seems way over optimistic to me) is more expensive than other ways to gain 1% , such as by spending money or time on better health. Really, you guys are way over-awed by the multiplication of made up probabilities by made up benefits, forgetting that all you did was making an utterly lopsided, extremely biased pros and cons list, which is a far cry from actually finding the optimum action.
There are those that argue that it’s more likely to find something benign you’ve always had and wouldn’t hurt you but you never knew about, seeing as we all have weird things in us, leading to unnecessary treatments which have risks.
Here we very often use ultrasound (and the ultrasound is done by the medical doctor rather than by a technician), it finds weird things very very well and the solution is simply to follow up later and see if its growing.
There are those that argue that it’s more likely to find something benign you’ve always had
This can only decrease the amount of useful information you’d get from the MRI, though—it can’t convert a benefit into a cost. After all, if the MRI doesn’t show more than the expected amount of weirdness, you should avoid costly treatments.
When immortality is at stake, a 91% chance is much much better than a 90% chance.
Not if that 1% (seems way over optimistic to me) is more expensive than other ways to gain 1% , such as by spending money or time on better health. Really, you guys are way over-awed by the multiplication of made up probabilities by made up benefits, forgetting that all you did was making an utterly lopsided, extremely biased pros and cons list, which is a far cry from actually finding the optimum action.
I signed up for cryonics precisely because I’m effectively out of lower cost options, and most of the other cryonicists are in a similar situation.
I wonder how good of an idea is a yearly full body MRI for early cancer detection...
There are those that argue that it’s more likely to find something benign you’ve always had and wouldn’t hurt you but you never knew about, seeing as we all have weird things in us, leading to unnecessary treatments which have risks.
What’s about growing weird things?
Here we very often use ultrasound (and the ultrasound is done by the medical doctor rather than by a technician), it finds weird things very very well and the solution is simply to follow up later and see if its growing.
This can only decrease the amount of useful information you’d get from the MRI, though—it can’t convert a benefit into a cost. After all, if the MRI doesn’t show more than the expected amount of weirdness, you should avoid costly treatments.