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Influenza isn’t complex, but it uses the insane growth rate of f(x) = x! , one of the fastest-growing functions out there. The greatest benefit of the #flushot isn’t keeping you healthy, it’s retarding that combinatorial explosion enough to save lives. Get one.

Video: http://youtu.be/s5CLpkTdiLM

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2018/10/17/155.-Combinatorial-Explosion-and-Flu-Shots.html

“Good” medical trials are placebo-controlled, but when might it be immoral to even perform such an experiment?

Video: http://youtu.be/cpVxiGxs_yE

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2018/10/03/154.-The-Ethics-of-Placebo-Controlled-Trials.html

Iain M. Banks’s “Culture” is a techno-utopia of hedonism, a concept much more philosophically complex than sex, drugs, and rock n roll.

Video: http://youtu.be/LD7wdKeMhus

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2018/09/19/153.-'The-Culture'-and-Hedonism.html

Prediction markets: put your money where your mouth is. (Just don’t bet against the superforecasters.)

Video: http://youtu.be/FVW0rqxX0CE

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2018/09/05/152.-Prediction-Markets-and-Superforecasting.html