Re:Desperate not to have children
by idlewords on Monday November 23, 2015 @08:48PM
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HIV is the other good example. I'm pushing back against your argument that we need to make more people or we'll stop finding teh drugs. We were far better at finding them back when we had less than half the current population.
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Do you really think there's a correlation between population and drug discovery effectiveness? I know part of the hypothesis here is that we generate huge amounts of data and not enough analysis, but analysis parallelizes too, right?
No, I don't think there's any correlation. I'm poking a hole in a tangential part of your argument, in the finest tradition of message board pedantry. We used to search for drugs differently, it was about 80x more effective, and therefore we could make way fewer people and still come out ahead if we just switched back.
I admit that the drug discovery thing was unnecessary filigree for an argument that could have rested with "we need more children so that old people don't end up starving to death".
That is a dark and satisfying way to put it. The elderly hunger for tender young flesh.
God you are the worst.
Re:Desperate not to have children
by kasey_junk on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @09:28AM
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s/worst/best/