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Yes, but you can double down on this stuff or introduce it in places where it hasn't yet manifested. It's perfect precisely because these are natural inefficiencies.

What % are from family wealth?

Why was rotation ever a recommendation? Did it used to make sense?

"Arc gives scientists no-strings-attached, multi-year funding, so that they don’t have to apply for external grants, and invests in the rapid development of experimental and computational technological tools."

Fantastic. This is desperately needed. Thanks Patrick C, Vitalik, et al, for funding this.

The fear campaign is very powerful too. People radically overestimate the risk. A large % of the population overestimates it by 48.4%!

"For unvaccinated hospitalization risk, 2% of Democrats responded correctly, compared with 16% of Republicans. In fact, 41% of Democrats replied that at least 50% of unvaccinated people have been hospitalized due to COVID-19."

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimat...

But yes, on the other side of it, if a 60 year old obese person isn't taking the vaccine, they're misinformed too. Their risk benefit analysis is off.

I agree. It'd be the same with Covid too if the risk was high. Ultimately the reason so many don't want a Covid vaccine is because the risk of hospitalization is only 1.6% and is well below 1% if you're young and otherwise healthy. Or if you already had Covid and have natural immunity you're about as protected as the vaccinated (<1% chance of hospitalization).

If the risk of hospitalization or death was 10%? 30%? Almost everyone would want the vaccine except the real hardcore anti-vaxxers. You wouldn't have to mandate or otherwise coerce people to take something if the threat was that credible generally. Few resist the smallpox vaccine, for example.