I tweeted something mean about this earlier, but have now decided that it must be satire. Surely not even the Taleb/LessWrong/Scott Alexander/Scott Adams class can be this heartless? Good satire. Must be.https://twitter.com/uuilly/status/1256800553062916096 …
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This reminds me of an NIH research paper about a bug in world of Warcraft that led to an in-game pandemic. They found it to be an accurate proxy for real-world reactions to a pandemic. Players started self-imposing social distancing and quarentine measures.
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However, just like real life, not everyone followed this policy. In fact some players started intentionally infecting others. Surprising how much we can learn from a video game.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23584861/
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