I think you may also be overestimating the benefits of informed autonomy in a lot of cases where "informed" assumes technical skill or knowledge that people just don't have.
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Replying to @0xMatt
If I understand correctly, you're saying you don't need to be informed why we're sheltering in place, you just trust that it's in your best interests?
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Replying to @taviso
No but on that point, if we knew the exact odds of being infected in any random encounter and each individual were in charge of making risk calculations and just going about their business, would we all be better off?
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Replying to @0xMatt
Then I don't follow, your argument. My point is that it's a doctors job to explain the treatment options to you, not to just do whatever they think is best. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?
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Replying to @taviso
I'm saying that your analogy is trying to frame CVD as a discussion between a doctor and a patient, when the closer analogy is between an Epidemiologist and a large, vulnerable population.
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It just happens that we have a real life example of epidemiologists and a large, vulnerable population to point to right now - and what people are doing is mostly accepting "There's a big risk here, wash your hands and stay inside" as the totality of what they need to know.
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Replying to @0xMatt
This is nonsense, all of the information, statistics, models, even the genetic sequence is all available to the public. What is happening now is full disclosure mode. The CVD model would be "don't say a word until a vaccine is ready, a few people may die".
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Replying to @taviso
Not exactly that, but that's because all analogies are ultimately flawed. Covid-19 will spread regardless of who knows about it. Many software vulnerabilities won't.
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Replying to @0xMatt
Cool, so if nobody knows about the vulnerability, then why fix it? If someone reported it, then clearly people are capable of finding it and exploiting it.
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Replying to @taviso
You know I don't believe that. But there's a difference between theory and practice - and in practice I've seen many bugs get discovered, reported, and fixed, without others discovering them and mis-using them. Then the info is released.
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You don't know that at all, and that's the problem. How could you possibly know if an attacker is exploiting a vulnerability? If you had a way to prove that a vulnerability is only known to you, then great - disclosure is not necessary, why even report it to the vendor?
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