> As it happens, the daily practice of medicine does not require interpretation of p-values. Indeed, medicine existed before the p-value.
What are you talking about? Doctors refer people based on test results every single day. From what I've seen, hardly any of them understand the precision/recall of the tests that they then use to refer you (or not) to screening procedures (which are not all harmless).
> I agree. Expecting perfection from humans, even experts, is not reasonable and is frankly counterproductive.
There's a big difference between perfection and "Statistical Literacy Among Doctors Now Lower Than Chance"[1]. I don't think their intentions are bad, but they are woefully incompetent at many basic things.
I think it's a matter of time until we see a notable plugin in the obsidian space get caught exfiltrating data. I imagine then, after significant reputational harm, the team will start introducing safe guards. At a minimum, create some sort of verified publisher system.
> I'm not proposing that we all just try harder to be altruistic, but rather that we craft some institution for rewarding people who have solved problems for many without encumbering those solutions with a monetization scheme.
> I'm sure somebody has a better idea than mine, lets get creative.
Every creative scheme I've seen someone try to come up with fails to do what charging money for a product can. Charge money for stuff, have a free tier, enjoy sustainable software.
> there aren’t a ton of good options for workers seeking shorter hours.
Is that true? Most trades can work fewer hours, medical workers like nurses can, hairdressers, plenty of writers are freelance, the entire gig economy.
It seems like big companies don't provide the option, for software at least. I always chocked that up to more bureaucratic processes which add some fixed cost for each employed person.
> the stated target of the law but the least likely to be affected by it
The least likely to be negatively affected. This will absolutely be good for them in that it just adds another item to the list of things that prevents new entrants from competing with them.
Interesting. I usually don't complain about prices because I wish more products charged, but I always found the publish pricing to just be too high altogether. I have a blog that's a few simple markdown files and it's easily worth the pain of setting up GitHub pages instead of paying $8/mo. Maybe I'm not the target market though.
Oh god. Didn't they try to do something like this in Mexico City and it resulted in no change? Clever policy is always rife with unintended consequences; prices are good.