nicholas 🧨 on Warpcast

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Aescape robotic massage was created by a handful of AdTech/Big Tech alums and just announced an $83mm financing round A massage costs $60/30 min session, which you have to undergo while wearing a bodysuit provided by the company so it can model your body. Only works from shoulders to knees, with “calves coming soon!” The machines will be placed in higher end locations like Equinox and Four Seasons hotels https://archive.is/2025.03.04-121802/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-04/ai-massage-startup-raises-83-million-brings-robots-to-equinox

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So it's MORE expensive than a human massage? Hrm.

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Was struck by that too. Rationalized it by thinking that these rich early adopters will subsidize scaling so it gets cheaper with time

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Sounds like positioning it as a premium alternative to human massage, at a financial premium. I'm doubtful but Equinox gonna Equinox

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Erica had a good point here too about how it might be worse https://warpcast.com/heavygweit/0x986b3c8e

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The biggest loss to me is I want insights from the massage therapist. They touch thousands of bodies a year and know things. Tell me what you see when you put your hands on my muscles! Not impossible for robots to get their but cognitive biases of the institution building massage robots unlikely to deliver meaningful lifestyle/ergonomic insights first.

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I stopped caring about typos the day I saw Bryan Johnson published a full graphic with improper use of “effect” vs “affect”. I’ll acknowledge them sometimes but like. People take health advice from a guy who doesn’t know basic grammar. Me as a pleb am going to be less precious about firing off something from the hip then if that’s the societal attitude

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people taking health advice form marketers is the issue here not typos

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I try not to have hubris. People ask ME for health advice! What have I been for the past x years? Good info CAN come from anywhere. But I would hope I have demonstrated a base level of knowledge to justify this,you know? Ha

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he’s marketing his own products and made his whole fortune by selling health advice being a nut job and no doctor hopefully you don’t have any ulterior intentions of selling them shit when advising your friends

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he made his fortune from braintree fwiw

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lol true i was thinking this now couldnt remember the company. taking that back. i still dont like marketing and health together thats just me

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No I don’t either. There’s a reason why for a long time the space was non profit

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show me the incentives tho 🥲 still bryan seems like a ‘good’ person and to care about the topics he endorses, so mixes feelings on him i guess dont hate the player hste the game and all

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i agree with skepticism about marketing in health products but tbh my regular doctor (canada) doesn't gaf about preventative care. i have to go out and do everything myself. happy to have someone whose brand is intellectual honesty sharing his diy project. he's such a divisive figure there's no lack of critical commentary on everything he says. and his products seem like well researched choices vs searching google/amz

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yes, i agree sadly he fills a void in the market and given the choices is a good source of info. but kinda wild that’s true

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