Gas chromatography proves Budweiser isn't watered down. Day drinking becomes "data collection" with scientific equipment involved.
Think by Numbers runs cost-benefit analyses for a species that spends $604 on weapons for every $1 on clinical trials. We suspect a math error.
The Declaration of Optimization
These governments have enough weapons to end civilization 122 times over. Current military spending is enough money to buy 850 bullets for every person alive every single year. You only need to kill everyone once for everyone to be dead. (I checked.) The remaining murder capacity is sheer waste.
For every 604 dollars they spend on the capacity for orphan manufacturing, they only spend one on clinical trials that might cure the diseases that will slowly torture and brutally murder you and everyone you have ever loved.
Your chance of being killed by a terrorist? 1 in 30 million. Your chance of dying of a disease? 100%.
This is suboptimal.
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Your destructive economy (military + cybercrime) is 12-15% of GDP and growing faster than your actual economy. The Soviet Union collapsed at 15-18%. You have about 15 years. Choose wisely.
Previous treaties cost $25-50M to get signatures. Even at 5% success probability, a 1% health treaty is 30,000x more cost-effective than anti-malaria bed nets. The downside is a yacht. The upside is no more disease.
Governments claim $68B on "medical research" but only $4.5B goes to clinical trials—56 cents per human. That's a 604:1 military-to-cure ratio. We spend more on pet food than on not dying.
Oxford tested COVID treatments for $500/patient and saved a million lives in 100 days. The NIH spent $1.6B and completed zero trials in four years. Only 3.3% of its budget tests cures.
The full cost of war: $2.7T military + $2.4T dead people + $1.9T blown-up buildings + $3.7T in lost growth = $11.4T/year. That's 12.7% of global GDP. The Pentagon can't find $2.5T of its own stuff.
Disease kills 130,000 people daily and costs $397T/year—more than global GDP. You spend 40x more on bombs than medicine. Your body is a machine. Fix it.
From 1883-1960, life expectancy grew 3.82 years/decade via decentralized doctor trials. In 1962, Congress "helped" and growth dropped 60% overnight. Drug costs went from $1.2M to $1B. Coincidence requires less precision.
7,000 diseases have zero treatments. At current pace, you'll cure them all in 450 years. Redirect 1% of military spending and it drops to 50. The system costs less to run than Halloween costumes for dogs.
Oxford spent $500/patient and found a $1 steroid saves 1/3 of COVID deaths in 100 days. US trials cost $41,000/patient. That's 82x worse, and people die waiting. The cure was from 1957.