But then why is cognitive enhancement a sector that modern pharma companies neglect? Looks like such products would be absolutely amazing for the companies - - rich patients - lifelong users I suspect the answer is that if they tried to develop them, they'd get GATTACA'd
Mistake vs conflict theory don't exactly carve nature at the joints. Conflict driven is real but the result of incentives in group dynamics; ostentatiously hating / harming the outgroup gets you status. Mistake driven is also real - where incentives don't match desired outcomes
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These converge to give results; example of cog enhancement - people who care about that are handicapped in signalling competitions so those people don't get promoted at FDA. The result is FDA is prone to making "mistakes" in the direction of the group think ex replication crisis
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Ok so there is a continuum between the two. What % of the outcome is chance/bad luck versus what % is enemy action. Then there is the issue that generically, problems do not simply solve themselves. Things are broken and progress usually requires some group to push it through.
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