There is this fantastic nineteenth century tech that i came across, which i think could be improved upon by using lightweight modern carbon stuff, like in a bicycle. It is a laundery wringer. You attatch them to a bucket, and then you place your wet laundery in them and use a crank. It must be of such length that the process does not become toilsome. It removes 95% of all water. Then they hung up the laundery in those days when they were in use, and they dried much quicker. If mass produced, students could just have one under the bed, and fetch it when needed. The problem is that those i see are too expensive and in steel, which means heavy and cumbersome. If Musk could ditch this pointless and overly expensive migration plan to Mars, he could solve this high-tech issue and have them sold at low cost to students?

Let me tell you a thing that is not often mentioned, which I think contributed to the rise of the American right we see today. In the us, unlike in Europe where freedom was economically tied to the rise of lower classes in their struggle against landowners and aristocracy, the notion of freedom implied a freedom from the norms of the majority. This is the old “frontier myth”. Then the prairie was settled, but that myth was entrenched. Then the internet came and opened up an unlimited and unregulated space for these cults and alternative views, and since the technological dynamics constantly drives everyone away from pain and towards pleasure, that is confirmation of existing beliefs, the “echo chambers” mushroomed. Because of historical baggage, the US was predisposed towards eccentricity, in a way. On top of this comes the fact that Congress has always had a very very low approval rating. It is epitomized by the representatives who read the phone book out loud, or filibuster, from the podium in order to sabotage the passing of legislation. At salaries paid by the taxpayer!! Then there is the annual shutdown ritual over the raising of the debt ceiling, which could have been avoided by switching from absolute numbers to a percentage of GDP. But it is a ritual, like the knocking on the door of the British parliament. So they keep it. But it adds an impression that they do nothing, that everything is jammed and that no representatives from different parties ever talk to each other over coffee, and that “hate” remains even after the cameras are off.

I see my suggestions above are not well liked :) But remember that this is more than many people have today on earth. And for these people, something is better than nothing. And when much can be achieved and scaled up at very low cost, then I do not see why it in any way conflicts with the existing health service? It will simply raise the lower up, and create a higher foundation. It does not bring anything or anyone down…?

Edit: Let me make an example of how it would work. I cut my finger and it becomes infected. Then i wonder whether i should apply aloe vera, which i can buy at the supermarket, or whether I need antibiotic cream. I then log in to the official health portal and ask the AI doctor, which tells me to turn on GPS on my phone and open their phone app. Then I direct the camera on the phone to the wound, which is scanned by AI, uploaded to my medical records, analyzed and a diagnosis made. If I am hysterical, AI will tell me to first clean and dress the wound, treat it with aloe vera, and take another photo tomorrow, or if the condition changes. And if antibiotics are needed, it will prescribe a code for a vending machine nearby. If I live in the countryside, it will offer to have the antibiotic cream sent to me by mail at agreed rates deducted from payment methods in my health portal. Many herbal treatments will therefore be subject to more monitoring than they are today. Even if they will be just as available for anyone to store at home. But a few other drugs, now prescribed by doctors will be more easily available. The doctors are simply over-qualified to deal with this. And they have enough to do as it is. Today you must often wait three weeks for a doctor’s appointment.

No, it is not Darwinism, for in his The Dsecent of Man from the 1870s Darwin extended natural selection to include emotions; it is the individuals who are to reproduce that transmit their genes to the next generation. And the process of dating does not proceed by rape. Then there is a debate concerning “group selection”, and whether there is a selective mechanism at that level. Then it shifts a little back and forth, with inheritance of acquired characteristics (Lamarckism) making an occasional comeback until the modern synthesis between Darwin and Mendel in the 1930. But these days, horizontal gene transfer and several other mechanisms continue to blur the image a little. And Gould’s old calculations that made directed evolution improbable have also been challenged in computer models, and where they have landed, I do not actually know, since it has been some years since I even thought about this subject. What you are talking about is probably Herbert Spencer, who by some weird coincidence (or perhaps it was intended?), is buried next to his ideological opposite, Karl Marx, in a London cemetery. It is from Spencer that many such things have emerged. His influence upon the robber barons and the shaping of the American right was considerable.

If you take the best chagtp, which is open source and free, download and place behind log in at your health care provider, and then you auto feed into it your medical data, as registered by your doctor, all hypochondriacs could sit all day talking about their swollen foot, and not burden any GP. If you combine this automatic doctoring with a type of vending machines for blood tests. Because in many treatments, a blood result A, will always be followed by treatment B. These would then be categorized as a specific and separate type of prescription drugs. And can be prescribed by nurses or AI.

And in all cases where these are used, a blood test vending machine can be also used. You then get your pill or whatever without annoying the doctor. This can also be scaled up at almost no cost and extended world wide. And there there would in fact be some universal health case everywhere.

Then you add mobile phone apps which by means of phone sensors are able to perform some diagnostics at the request of your AI doctor, and transmit these data directly into your medical file.

Another thing you could then do, is to add on top of it Japanese kampo medicine, and evidence based herbal treatments, which-in combination with over the counter drugs- can remedy some shortages for the very poorest people. This would then be a world wide health care foundation.

Finally, one could then discuss how to provide the really important treatments on top of this, cancer etc. And other surgeries.

And if anyone is impressed by this, wait until i tell you about my perpetual motion machine…But what I have described involves NO tech innovations at all, just implementing systematically what already exists. Free AI exists, medical records exist, phone apps exist, vending machines exist. Kampo, over the counter and herbs exist, nutritional knowledge exist. The reason why herbal remedies are mentioned is not that they have superior effect, which they do not, but rather the lower production costs.

What does not exist is integration of these into a system. But this system, if implemented, would be largely automated.

What was she doing there?

If you live your life waiting for confirmation from others you always be disappointed. However, if you live to annoy others…

Some day, when you grow up, you too will see naked adult women. In the meantime, you can do research online…I recommend pubmed, base and core, as well as anatomical atlas.

That people start open newssites is good, but if it is not commercially run, the issue of the backer’s influence will always be there. I still hope they make it work, but that they make clear these things.