@michael_nielsen this may be relevant to your interests… I haven’t dug in seriously, there’s a lot of fussy detail. Doesn’t cite you and Patrick, but I will :) https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/IdeaPF.pdf …
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This seems to be about the possibility that the rate at which science produces truths is doing. I'm more worried about the possibility that the rate at which it is producing plausible, acceptable, actionable falsehoods is increasing.
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We're spending more and more—currently 20%—of our GDP on health care. Type 1 worry: it isn't working—we can't cure cancer. We used to find cures for things. Type 2 worry: "science/health-care" is getting better and better at extracting value. False results are profitable.
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Yes. I think about this a lot (although it’s not my area of expertise). I mostly only write about it in passing, although I’m working on a couple of paragraphs on the topic right now! Medical research is probably the most fucked part of science :(
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