Dan Luu on Nostr: It's sort of a funny thought experiment, but what would the world look like with the ...
It's sort of a funny thought experiment, but what would the world look like with the modern internet but without medicine? Infant mortality rate is roughly 50%, life expectancy is something like 20-30 years, with people randomly and mysteriously dying from infections after getting a small cut, etc.
Inequality due to wealth would be reduced because rich people would suffer from all of the same causes of death since this presupposes that no one knows how to treat or prevent any illness.
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