Thoughts
Hacker News comments are so bad. I’m going to stop commenting there, I’m done.
German PHD student describes a thought experiment in which you have infinite money and are incapable of telling if you’re sick. If you have 2 doctors, who can tell if you’re sick, but don’t care about your personal well-being, how do you pay them? (Ex. Pay them both only if they agree; pay one for diagnosis, one for treatment; etc.) It’s a game theory problem, with implications for negotiating with hyper-intelligent AI or aliens.
The comments:
‘Only pay the doctors if you’re healthy’
‘I am a doctor and I just want to help people’
‘Move to a country with a great healthcare system like Sweden’
‘I’m not going to read the article, the premise is flawed’
Honestly these comments are so bad. Comments that understand that this is a metaphor and not a commentary on US Healthcare are the minority. This is Tumblr levels of reading comprehension.
=> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29269973