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I wish you could do the same thing with mental illness.. massively send pull request to correct everyone's bad brain code.. <sorry>


This is a genuinely cool idea. Seriously.

It raises a lot of questions about what sort of transformative spectrum (excuse pun) would be applied here though. It's is incredibly abstract as presented.

But even at the abstract level, the one thing I know would absolutely happen for sure is that the fixes that made the biggest difference would be hand-waved out of existence by infecting them with viruses, creating scare-campaigns, etc.

Source: I've learned a lot about Big Pharma over the past 10 years as I've quietly found real solutions to my own mental health issues. I'm sadly too scared to share what I've found and I keep seeing products disappear off the market or suddenly attract customs/overseas shipping issues. Suffice it to say that the medical industry is opposed to anything they can't patent - and that, as an industry, it must ensure its own survival. Interpret that any way you see fit.




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