| > In 2017, software is conspicuously not eating the cost-disease economic sectors: health care, education, housing, government. They are being eaten—by communal mode tribalism. Software can't fix political problems... Bucky Fuller predicted that we would describe our problems to the computer and it would calculate the optimal deployment of resources to solve them. He estimated that we would have the technology to supply everyone on Earth with a decent standard of living by sometime in the 1970's, provided that we used our resource and technology efficiently. In other words, if you accept Bucky's point, all of our problems now are psychological rather than technological. (We have all the technology we need.) Standard of living problems have mathematical solutions, psychological problems don't.[1] > hire an independent health care administration consultant "Add another layer of abstraction." But now the consultant has a clear disincentive ($150/hour!) to fix the problem. The U.S. health system is pathetically broken, and I have no idea how to fix it. This seems like a poor solution, even though I can understand why the author would do it. I really feel for the author. My mother has dementia and is slipping away fast. Thankfully my sister has the time and energy to move back in with our mother and care for her. She's also with Kaiser-Permanente which seems to let us avoid the worst of the systemic problems. So, in a way, we're really lucky. [1] "psychological problems don't [have mathematical solutions]" Although... There is something called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (the other NLP) that is a kind of model of psychology that does admit of algorithm-like protocols for therapy. E.g. the "Five-Minute Phobia Cure" which is an algorithm that cures phobias. |