(Classic Episode) Zvi Mowshowitz - How the Worst People in Society Bungled a Pandemic
From the New World
The Importance of Confidence
The CDC is refusing to release specifications for doing wastewater detection for polio. They are not letting other people run tests for a potential pandemic. It's like and just repeating the same thing, right. And if it sucks that everything you think it's supposed to do, maybe it doesn't do the things you think it’s supposed to do. Right. This does this is actually optimizing for something very, very different. You would have like my previous model was something like they will fight the last war. But it's way worse than that. Armies are actually at least can fight the lastwar reasonably often. Most people don't learn anywhere near as much as you'd think.
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