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Related to cultural moral values: 'do the-right-thing even if it doesn't benefit you'.

This brings us closer to max payoff of prisoner-dilemma.

In this case it's 'do the job right, even if that's not profit-maximizing'.

But moral values have been lost.

Actually this is an obsession with profit, which makes more sense. Faster is cheaper and get paid sooner. And consumers often pick price over quality. So this is a civilization dynamics problem.

In a afternoon, I can parse the equations. But intuitively understanding why it works? I am unable to understand, after years of trying.

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Feels personal

I first found out about Nick with Jhana meditation.

It seems getting cancer is a lot of work. If I ever get it, I would like to have a gamified app that tells me what I have to do.

-'call this number of hospital x to schedule an appointment with Dr y'. (check. Appointment in 5 weeks. Automatically reschedules the task every day to ask if there is cancelation to make it sooner).

- 'you will get your 1st opinion today. In the appointment, get your test results so we can get a 2nd opinion later.'

The app would have built in ai who knows and references 'the standard of care', and knows where to schedule each treatment anywhere in the world.

Personal family story about non-health side-effects of cancer:

40 years ago, Dad got colon cancer. He was a Jehovah Witness, they prohibit blood transfusions. He looked hard for a doctor who was willing to do surgery without blood, and found one. Surgery was successful, he was completely cured. Years later, the official medical recommendation for when to do blood transfusions dropped to use blood in less cases, which shows better outcomes. This was interpreted in his mind as "JWs saved my life, I owe my life to this cult", so he became a radical JW, which destroyed our family.

Dr. Karol, Johanna, and Fahir.

To me, Systems Thinking material always reads as if written by philosophers who wish they were engineers.

So which one do you use now?

I think it's well formulated.