Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World's Biggest Problems
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Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World's Biggest Problems
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#2Bill Gates treating the world like a computer optimization problem. First profile the world (program) and construct suitable benchmarks. Figure out some reasonable goals and test if your various health care and education programs affect the benchmark results.
Re: Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World's Biggest Problems
#3How to rid the world of all known diseases (the Python method)
"Well, first of all become a doctor and discover a marvelous cure for something, and then, when the medical profession really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there'll never be any diseases ever again."
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#4This reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell talk on why future generation will remember Bill Gates and not Steve Jobs and also why he will be remembered as a humanitarian and not as a computer genius.
Re: Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World's Biggest Problems
#5The biggest problem is resource depletion and overpopulation. Overpopulation will be "fixed" through starvation and death. Resource depletion will leave the current young and future generations with far less extravagant lives. Adding to the overpopulation through vaccination programmes und su weiter is a misstep.
Re: Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World's Biggest Problems
#6Bill Gates treating the world like a computer optimization problem. First profile the world (program) and construct suitable benchmarks. Figure out some reasonable goals and test if your various health care and education programs affect the benchmark results.
As Gates points out in the article, these techniques existed before computers. So I agree given Gates's background, he is probably applying what he learned from computers to wider problems. But in the grand scheme of things, computer science adopted these techniques from other disciplines.
Re: Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World's Biggest Problems
#7Bill Gates treating the world like a computer optimization problem. First profile the world (program) and construct suitable benchmarks. Figure out some reasonable goals and test if your various health care and education programs affect the benchmark results.
No, it's called science, we've been using it for a little while now and it seems to be working out pretty well.
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#8Not everyone is as confident in Bill Gates's magical abilities as he is.
http://dianeravitch.net/2013/01/10/how-bill-gates-wasted-50-... http://seattletimes.com/html/dannywestneat/2014437975_danny0...
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#9This reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell talk on why future generation will remember Bill Gates and not Steve Jobs and also why he will be remembered as a humanitarian and not as a computer genius.
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Re: Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World's Biggest Problems
#10The biggest problem is resource depletion and overpopulation. Overpopulation will be "fixed" through starvation and death. Resource depletion will leave the current young and future generations with far less extravagant lives. Adding to the overpopulation through vaccination programmes und su weiter is a misstep.
Decreasing child mortality rates and increasing healthcare availability is statistically shown to decreased birth rate (among other improvements), resulting in fixing the issue of overpopulation (over time).