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Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti... by SketchySeaBeast on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:06PM (#37267060)
"This isn't a problem because of science fiction" isn't a terribly realistic answer to the concerns being raised.
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Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti... by echelon on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:11PM (#37267095)
> "This isn't a problem because of science fiction" isn't a terribly realistic answer to the concerns being raised.

This isn't a step function difficult thing to do [1-3]. Nobody is doing it because it's "icky".

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5116034/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6511668/

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112

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Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti... by SketchySeaBeast on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:14PM (#37267126)
But it is. Giant body farms of clones raised without the benefit of a womb that we then decapitate and reattach our heads to is a non-trivial enterprise.
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Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti... by echelon on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @06:03PM (#37314740)
Here we go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308675
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