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mportela • today at 2:48 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Agreed. IIRC the mechanism for anesthesia in unknown to this day. In fact, medicine as a whole is very pragmatic and time and time again prefers using techniques with unknown mechanisms but proven results than waiting for a reasonable scientific explanation of what’s going on.


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qup • today at 2:51 PM

As logic would dictate--particularly for people who aren't the highest IQ guy on the planet.

Half of people are below average! They understand nothing at the level that Tao means. Literally nothing.

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