If you go for brain surgery, check the error rates of different doctors that might operate you and taking actions so that you get operated by a doctor with a low error rate seems to be pretty valuable. You probably also should get opinions from experts that aren’t brain surgeons about whether the surgery in itself makes sense.
Bridges build today are often more expensive, take longer to build and are more ugly than those build 70 years ago. Moses wasn’t an architect but was good at building bridges.
Elon Musk wasn’t an expert at rocket engineering before starting SpaceX. He seems to do pretty well.
I was referring to how docs do brain surgery (e.g., infection prevention procedures, what instruments are used, where incisions are made, etcetera) rather than error rates or second opinions. I highly doubt that many non-experts (even a very motivated brain cancer patient) could successfully determine the appropriateness of specific surgical techniques for brain surgery. And since brain cancer is rare, it’s low stakes from a societal or even a personal survival point of view (although, it will become high stakes if you’ll live a lot longer than the current lifespan).
Nah, bridges (see other reply) and rockets aren’t high stakes enough to be worth worrying about.
If you go for brain surgery, check the error rates of different doctors that might operate you and taking actions so that you get operated by a doctor with a low error rate seems to be pretty valuable. You probably also should get opinions from experts that aren’t brain surgeons about whether the surgery in itself makes sense.
Bridges build today are often more expensive, take longer to build and are more ugly than those build 70 years ago. Moses wasn’t an architect but was good at building bridges.
Elon Musk wasn’t an expert at rocket engineering before starting SpaceX. He seems to do pretty well.
I was referring to how docs do brain surgery (e.g., infection prevention procedures, what instruments are used, where incisions are made, etcetera) rather than error rates or second opinions. I highly doubt that many non-experts (even a very motivated brain cancer patient) could successfully determine the appropriateness of specific surgical techniques for brain surgery. And since brain cancer is rare, it’s low stakes from a societal or even a personal survival point of view (although, it will become high stakes if you’ll live a lot longer than the current lifespan).
Nah, bridges (see other reply) and rockets aren’t high stakes enough to be worth worrying about.