The FDA has loosened many of its usual restrictions because of the pandemic. The concept of risk-benefit tradeoffs is, I expect, very familiar to them. “Deregulation can ever be good” is clearly a notion the Trump administration has heard of.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @maxefremov
Actually deregulating to the extent I support would require what is commonly called “fanaticism” — willingness to keep pushing against resistance to the point of becoming a boor — which I think is selected against in all leadership positions, public or private.
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“I don’t care how nice, smart, or “reasonable” you are, I’m not gonna accept your excuses until the cost (or death rate, or w/e) goes down” is the attitude you need here.
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Because bureaucrats *are* nice, sincere, and extremely well educated. They will always have plausible reasons, which they actually believe, why some source of delay or cost is necessary. And, typically, you will get your explanation and feel sheepish and not push.
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(Trump is a boor but not a fanatic; he is willing to “disrespect” experts by pushing them on timelines and asking “stupid” but often essential questions, but he’s *not* monomaniacally focused on a single desired outcome, no matter the social cost.)
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Jeff Bezos is, by all accounts, a fanatic in this sense about cost-cutting within Amazon. I am not sure we have ever had a fanatic US President.
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A fanatic asks “ok but does it help with the Outcome?” every. single. time. to the point where if upending his own organization will help, he’ll do that. Larry Kramer was a fanatic. That’s why he got kicked out of the org he founded.
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When you meet a fanatic, you realize how many of your preconceptions about “necessity” are fake. “But you Need to pay a salary this high!” Do you? Or could you relocate to somewhere unfashionable? hire people who didn’t go to fancy schools but can still do the work?
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“but you Need to write a formal report!” Do you? how does that change the Outcome?
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“Ok but now your org is disrespectable, unprofessional, and a really stressful place to work!” “Ok but does that change the Outcome?”
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“but you’re alienating people!” “Ok does that change the Outcome?”
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“But the people doing it the other way are so much more technologically advanced and smarter than you!” “Ok but are their Outcomes better?”
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Do you really care about the Outcome? Or are you only willing to do things to improve the Outcome so long as they don’t disturb all the *other* stuff you care about?
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