It wasn't until 1987 that the American Academy of Pediatrics explicitly recommended giving babies pain relief during surgical procedures. 1987!(!!!) Why? Parental outrage, initially kicked off by a mother whose infant received *open heart surgery* with no pain management.
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Culture is a helluva drug
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Have been thinking a lot about this. In building enormous libraries of collective knowledge we lump in a lot of stuff out of convenience or happenstance, have a hard time questioning because it becomes intertwined with what makes us great. Unraveling/replacing is tricky.pic.twitter.com/PqMu7Tl6n8
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@ESYudkowsky wrote a book on this kind of problem, Inadequate Equilibria https://equilibriabook.com/toc/ pic.twitter.com/LPrnRI4hBO
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