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We can fly rockets to space and then land them on barges at sea, cure diseases, use technology to reduce global hunger, create synthetic organs, and trade trill
by peterwwillis 7y ago
We can fly rockets to space and then land them on barges at sea, cure diseases, use technology to reduce global hunger, create synthetic organs, and trade trillions of dollars of money across oceans in microseconds, yet we can't figure out which of two computers in an online card catalog is real and which is going to empty your bank account.
- JudgeWapner 7y agocounterpoints: * private space missions were financed from the sale of a predatory business (paypal) * government space missions originated from the cold war arms races (that continue to this day) * a few diseases are curable, many aren't. pharmaceuticals profit more from treatment than cure, however. Some ailments such as anaphalaxis and diabetes that are mostly treatable have been receding into "uncured/undertreated" territory because phama keeps raising the prices of insulin or epi pens. * much of hunger, say in Africa, can be easily treated if we could find a way to keep warlords and corrupt gov's from stealing the aid, but our technology isn't helping us very much (not saying we shouldn't keep trying, but tech is of no use for this problem) * synthetic organs sound great (if you need one). maybe this I concede is a victory for (bio)tech. * trading money is really just trading information. Once the infrastructure is in place, it's a trivial matter. deciding who gets to post content online is a much harder problem to solve. If you could make one call to google to have them de-listed from search, every company/political faction would be doing this to thier competitors/rivals.