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While I'm pro nuclear power, at what point do we say that nuclear isn't the way to go? The cost of solar panels and batteries are declining every year, and you don't have to deal with the terrible stigma that nuclear power has. Sure, new reactors are "zero emission", but will people actually want them to be built?
Build those too!
You are a billionare Marc. You are probably one of the top 1000 people with the capacity to build in North America. So, how many of the things you list are you building?
If you made this response in a web browser, he helped build that. See also: https://a16z.com/portfolio/
Build too much, and you end up with depleted resources, non-environmental solutions, and outdated artefacts.
Recycling is surely an option, but it should be the fallback, not the default.
While the current crisis could’ve been handled better, it is not at all badly handled. Nature is much stronger than us, and the fact that we are not totally screwed after over four months since the outbreak is impressive.
Over building hospitals for the next pandemic sounds inefficient to me.
In my opinion, the deficiencies that the pandemic is unmasking in the american system need a political solution and change.
Looking for heroic activism isn’t going to fix the systemic issues.
The left starts out with a stronger bias toward the public sector in many of these areas. To which I say, prove the superior model!
Look to the European democracies. They have a lot of what is missing here. They are more socially oriented, the state taking care of it’s citizens.
Look to Germany’s healthcare system. It’s regulated, but works well for everyone.
You are a billionare Marc. You are probably one of the top 1000 people with the capacity to build in North America. So, how many of the things you list are you building?
An investor can only invest in building things for which there are demand, and for things that benefit society at large that demand usually comes from the government. Sometimes from philanthropists - but they are piss poor compared to the resources of an entity that can demand tax from every citizen.
This is great. We are really playing the victim with this virus. I think we should be attacking it on all fronts. Let’s spend the next ten years building a system that can produce a vaccine in three months. Maybe have a national reserve of people standing by to participate in vaccine trials during a crisis. Don’t have some of the technology? Invent it! Rules don’t allow it? Change the rules!
> Let’s spend the next ten years building a system that can produce a vaccine in three months. The big problem is that we have to test it long term on a bunch of live human beings to make sure it doesn't deform babies or something. That is the major delay. Build whatever system you want, but a perfect vaccine ready today would still be well over 3 months from deployment due to the need for safety checks. https://www.…
It would still be enormously valuable for first responders and elderly. You make sure they have all the information about the unknown risks and let them be consenting adults.
A terrible idea for normal times but maybe ok weighed against the cost of doing nothing in a crisis.
It's interesting that he manages to say completely uncontroversial things, yet do so in such a way that even he finds them controversial. Is there a word for this phenomenon?
Reworded in a way that doesn't generalize quite so intensely and that doesn't use such an ineffective tone, this 'essay' (I don't really think it counts as one; it's more what you'd expect to hear in a speech) might have actually had legs.
This is great. We are really playing the victim with this virus. I think we should be attacking it on all fronts. Let’s spend the next ten years building a system that can produce a vaccine in three months. Maybe have a national reserve of people standing by to participate in vaccine trials during a crisis. Don’t have some of the technology? Invent it! Rules don’t allow it? Change the rules!
> Let’s spend the next ten years building a system that can produce a vaccine in three months. The big problem is that we have to test it long term on a bunch of live human beings to make sure it doesn't deform babies or something. That is the major delay. Build whatever system you want, but a perfect vaccine ready today would still be well over 3 months from deployment due to the need for safety checks. https://www.…
Measure twice, cut once, respect our forebears.