Lumifer comments on Links: so-called "knockout game" a "myth and a "bogus trend." - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 25 November 2013 06:25:18PM 1 point [-]

it looks like the whole thing got kicked off by UnitedHealth complaining about 23andMe's affordability to the FDA

Might be, but it also crossed my mind that under Obamacare the government has incentives to NOT let people make informed guesses about their future health.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 26 November 2013 03:55:53AM *  3 points [-]

"The government" isn't an agent and doesn't respond to incentives. It is a whole bunch of different people with different careers and roles. I wouldn't expect an FDA researcher, a naval officer, a State Department staffer, and a senator to have the same incentives regarding policy, for instance.

Which people do you think have an incentive like that?

Comment author: Lumifer 26 November 2013 04:00:19AM 4 points [-]

Which people do you think have an incentive like that?

The Administration, aka the White House.