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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by twoquestions on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:12AM (#14969864)
That's the theory, it's just that a lot of people frankly have their heads too far up their asses to see how a global optimization is better than the local one.

I don't care to be this coarse, but I've been trying for 10 minutes to find a better way of putting it.

Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by the_cat_kittles on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:34AM (#14970211)
in my own experience, one of the primary ways people with an analytical bent (looking at you HN) have their heads up their asses is that they seem to think that the market is a perfect judge of value. hard to convince people of your point when they believe such a circular, lazy thing.
Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by pixl97 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @01:31PM (#14971548)
>see how a global optimization is better than the local one.

When the local maxima and global maxima do not align suffering occurs. This is why evoLuton picks a few broad things on a global scale, but at the local scale thing developed very differently