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Robin Hanson, PhD: Healthcare Signaling, the Conspicuous Caring Hypothesis, and Prediction Markets in Medicine
The External Medicine Podcast
The Hidden Motives Behind Behaviors
David Frum: Medicine functions to a large degree to let us show that we care about each other. In our distant ancestors, the main thing they did while you were sick was just bring you food and keep predators away from you,. And it couldn't do that much else for you. He says humans evolved this habit of treating medicine as a way to show how effective it was at keeping them alive in bad or good times. The idea here is that as we get richer, you got to spend more to show you care.
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