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I guess they have the necessary precautions in place Given the history of some SV startups and their move-fast-break-things and fake-it-'til-you-make-it philos
by CaptainZapp 8y ago
I guess they have the necessary precautions in place
Given the history of some SV startups and their move-fast-break-things and fake-it-'til-you-make-it philosophy and looking back at some of the more unsavoury examples I believe you're highly optimistic here.
- bayesian_horse 8y agoThere is a difference between faking some standard lab tests and infecting people with deadly viruses or giving them fatal immune reactions.
- darkpuma 8y agoDo you think that difference represents a line a highly motivated sociopath would be unwilling to cross?
- bayesian_horse 8y agoEven the highly motivated sociopath will probably understand that dead customers are really bad for business.
- CaptainZapp 8y agoTheranos management didn't much give a shit about potentially dead customers based on test results, which they knew were fraudulent. So I still think this is a bit optimistic.
- bayesian_horse 8y agoStill, I don't think that this compares. Bad test results rarely ever cause death, especially when the really time critical tests are done in clinics. And it's really hard to prove a test is wrong, or even maliciously wrong. So I do believe that someone with questionable ethics is much more likely to assume he can get away with mostly-fake lab tests than with killing patients outright with something obvious like a bad reaction to a blood transfusion. Even infections with a blood-borne Virus would probably be discovered within a year or two, because blood transfusions are sort of the first culprits you have in mind.