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@aral Medical record anonymization does not work anyway.

@moonman @aral Why does the article even bother mentioning he's right wing; would it have been in any way less scary if he were left wing? Reeks of hit piece and makes me immediately distrust the article.

@guizzy @aral I think it's worse that doctors seem to be in favor of this kind of data sharing.

@moonman @aral I'm not surprised, doctors often lack humility, and their importance in the current crisis is not going to help with that. It's not out of character for them to think THEY can be trusted with people's information.

@guizzy @aral lack of imagination for how data would be abused.

@shpuld @moonman @aral Yes, there seems to be an annoyance in many of them at the fact that people make decisions that take other things than health into account. If doctors were in charge I'm sure right now we'd all be under actual house arrest with ankle bracelets, for an entire year. Not them, though, of course.

@guizzy @shpuld @aral @moonman

>Hume's law basically says that one person expertise on what "is" is not a basis to justify his expertise on what "ought to be". Couple of examples can come to mind :

>A liberal economist have an expertise on how to maximise GDP growth of a country, but his belief that GDP growth maximisation should be the goal of society is a political question, debatable by society at large.

>A general is the expert on how to invade a country, but the question of whether or not we should invade the country is a political question that can be debated by most people.

>A civil engineer is the expert on how to build a bridge, but deciding whether or not we should build a bridge is a political question.

>A lawyer is the expert on the application of the law as it is, but his opinion on what the law ought to be is debatable.

>Very often, experts act like their political opinion on what course of actions must be taken to solve a problem relative to their field of expertise should be the final answer. this is not true, their main role should be laying out the possible options in a neutral manner and their consequences, and then add their opinion if they want but they should make it clear that it's their opinion and not a fact.

@lnxw37a2 @aral @moonman @shpuld That is true, and I have to admit that my dislike of dealing with Macs on a professional level is probably coming from a similar place; it's not objectively bad, it just makes my job harder, and I often make it known.