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I'm so glad the tech bros, here and on twitter, are on top of this epidemic. I don't trust the professors of medicine and scientists advising our governments ei

by pnako 7y ago

I'm so glad the tech bros, here and on twitter, are on top of this epidemic. I don't trust the professors of medicine and scientists advising our governments either if I can't see some Python code and a condescending tweet about how no one understands exponential growth.

zozbot234 7y ago
The current response to the outbreak in the UK/US is supposedly being driven by "behavioral modeling", which basically means glorified techbro-Python code. So your argument is backwards, if anything. The WHO didn't used to think of "lockdowns" as a recommended approach either, but they're now changing their mind, as this has worked in China and elsewhere.