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.
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.
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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.
Move 1% of the $2.7T bomb budget to medicine: $27.2B for trials, $114B saved from fewer explosions. Your worst case is the largest medical funding increase in history.
You run 200,000-year-old brain software optimized for hoarding rocks and fearing strangers. You've given it nukes. 5% of your decisions are conscious. Your amygdala handles the rest. This is your owner's manual.