Hard to find good stuff online but WWII Committee on Medical Research probably has useful lessons. In very short order, figured out how to scale penicillin production, found better malaria antivirals (including chloroquine!), huge improvements in blood transfusions/replacements…
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It's a hard book to find cheap copies of but fortunately
@gwern hosts a pdf https://www.gwern.net/docs/history/1970-bush-piecesoftheaction.pdf … -
Ah, awesome. Thank you
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I fear that in this case, like in many other historical scenarios of interest to
#progress_studies answer might be: they were just better people.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Good enough reference books
@patrickc !Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Cypernetics and systems have answers for us too?
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