
Ep 26: Problems, Knowledge and Wealth
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How to Find a Cure for a Virus
When you solve one problem, that sus new, more interesting problems to be solved. And that requires us to make progress faster than those who would seek to do us harm. We have the problem right now of how to find a cure for the disease effectively. Now let's say the vaxcine solution appears 12 to 18 months from now. People keep mentioning this, this number. Well, what problems does that end the desa in trying to insure that the people who get the vaccine don't suffer terrible side effects from the vaccine? Some proportion may or should be expected, to suffer bad consequences. But that is a better problem than having a vast number of people, a much larger
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