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Hacking for public health

Christoph

Sounds like a great idea 

"How about being able to tune precisely how much risk a person is willing to take?"

Tune up your soldiers before sending them into combat, so they don't have all these silly selfish ideas about trying to avoid getting themselves killed?

Spleen

Risk adjustment 

City traders was my thought. Up for the hedge fund types, down for the pension fund managers. More precise than the current system (cocaine).

Troy Shanahan

How long before we hear... 

Coat

..I'm in ur brains, reading all ur impulses?

Mine's the white one with overly long sleeves and leather straps.

Brent Gardner

WTF? 

Dead Vulture

What does flu virus strain innoculation analysis have to do with artificial brain function? At all? And why do we care what the media lab does? Your saying the retards that bring us hopping alarm clocks and talking houses are going to knock out the first true artificial intelligence? This article is the worst I've ever seen on the Reg I think.