[ExI] virus data

[William Flynn Wallace]

What I am thinking of is like open source software, only no one has written
the kernel (I think that's the right term).  Whatever the problem is, you
put all the data on a site and invite anyone to help solve it.  It would
not necessarily involve writing any software and it could offer cash prizes
for those who made significant contributions.

Many millions of people online who are smart.  How can we make use of
them?  Of course I have no idea how to do this or what questions to post,
but so much talent out there, amateurs or hobbyists.

Would you guess at how much of the available virus data is being massaged?
There has to be a gigantic pile of it just sitting there.  who decides
which of it to analyze?  That is a critical question.

bill w

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 9:56 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> OK cool, some hipsters on the topic have told me that if a prole looks at
> Israelis over age 60, where they focused their immunization efforts, the
> results look very promising.  If there is still a high case load, it will
> be among younger people, for whom covid is far less likely to cause death
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> Last week I posted about the wisdom of intentionally giving one’s second
> dose to someone else, not to be self-sacrificing, but for completely
> self-interested reasons: giving your second dose to someone else speeds up
> herd immunity.  There is one additional step which I am less sure about: if
> one is a very low-contact individual, such as one has a stay-home job and
> has her groceries (and everything else) delivered, and doesn’t see anyone,
> it makes perfect sense, even with only self-interest, to intentionally
> refuse the vaccine until everyone who is willing has had at least one
> dose.  Think that one thru.
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