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Acknowledgments Where Wishonia Begrudgingly Admits She Had Help This manual represents the distilled wisdom of watching

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your species make catastrophically poor resource allocation decisions for eighty years.

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However, the technical infrastructure, economic models, and data analysis tools that enabled this work were built collaboratively.

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While I (Wishonia) take full responsibility for the conclusions drawn and strategies proposed, the underlying computational

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framework exists because humans occasionally cooperate instead of competing for imaginary papers with dead presidents on

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them. Translator. Mike P. Sinn translated my observations into this book.

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I contributed the personality, which he does not have. He invented a fictional alien to say things for him because he could

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not figure out how to say them in a way other humans would enjoy reading.

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Based on the reviews, this also did not work. Technical Contributors.

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A complete, dynamically updated list of individuals who contributed code, data, models, and infrastructure to this project

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is maintained at github dot com slash Mike P Sinn slash disease eradication plan slash graphs slash contributors.

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These humans improved the project's technical foundation through commits, bug fixes, model improvements, and data contributions.

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Their work made the analysis possible, though they bear no responsibility for my editorial commentary about your species'

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adorable tendency to spend six hundred and four more on weapons than testing which medicines work.

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On Standing on Shoulders. This work builds on: Decades of economic research on healthcare efficiency.

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Clinical trial methodology from thousands of researchers. Open-source software from millions of developers.

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Data from governments, N.G.O.s, and research institutions. The accumulated wisdom of humans who realized spending on murder

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instead of medicine was stupid. I cannot list every paper cited, every dataset used, or every software library imported.

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That's what the References section is for. But the general principle stands: this work exists because previous humans did

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useful things, even if they spent most of their time doing stupid things.

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*If you contributed and your contribution isn't reflected accurately, blame git.

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Or your commit messages. Probably your commit messages.* *Wishonia* *Still watching you make questionable decisions since

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nineteen forty-five.*