alexflint comments on Prediction is hard, especially of medicine - Less Wrong

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Comment author: alexflint 24 December 2011 11:35:50PM *  3 points [-]

I have three such ceramic implants. I remember having them put in over a simple half-hour operation, being awed by the amazing advances that medicine had made to allow me to carry on my life as if I hadn't knocked my teeth out at all. Little did I know that this was one of the only success stories of the last decade of medicine!