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I see the caution you're highlighting, and I agree that my proposed solution leans toward a utopian vision, one where humanity truly works together to solve glo
by ainiriand 2y ago
I see the caution you're highlighting, and I agree that my proposed solution leans toward a utopian vision, one where humanity truly works together to solve global problems. Realistically, I’m not sure we're capable of that level of unity. Take the COVID pandemic as an example—despite the global impact, we couldn’t deliver a unified response. Different countries had varying degrees of success, which ultimately affected the overall resolution for everyone. We see the same for global warming and co2 emissions.
But global problems require global solutions. Without that, many critical challenges may go unsolved, especially when there’s no immediate economic reward driving the effort.
- mike_hearn 2y agoThe immediate economic reward of solving Alzheimer's would be enormous. There's no economics problem to solve here.
- ainiriand 2y agoThink about the many rare diseases that are essentially ignored, combined they are a problem but alone they do not merit any significant investment.
- PeterStuer 2y agoOnly if it involves in patent medicine. A cure or treatment based on out of patent cheap generic medicines, we can't have that.
- mike_hearn 2y agoYou can get patents on novel re-applications of existing substances, iirc. So that's not a blocker either. Besides, academic research just simply try out existing off-patent medicines to see if any work.