"From the user's point of view, Docker is better [...] run just one command"
Nope. Your "better" solution just became fundamentally impossible for 99.9% of users.
> it did not appear to spur the recipients on to seek work more
> But when compared to a control group who were not receiving the basic income, the test subjects given the money, were not significantly more likely to have got back into employment.
I don't think the UBI was meant as a way to make people not want to look for better ways but to allow one to do it without the pressure of the basic expenses and bills piling up, that's how I see it. In the context of poverty and intelligence it would appear as this approach might not produce the intended results and I think that would be more related to how we're evolutionary wired to be lazy, there are advantages to that when it comes energy expenditure etc [0]
Which is rather silly because he used the correct, non made up, word right there in that sentence. Misdiagnosis.
There's absolutely no benefit to say "they are suffering because of pseudoaddiction" instead of saying "they are suffering because their pain was misdiagnosed as addiction."
Except that the pseudoaddiction isn't the misdiagnosis. The pseudoaddiction is the collection of behaviors that have been misdiagnosed. Someone else in this thread said 'underdosing,' and I think that gets at the idea better.
As a Media Lab alum, I know there are plenty of people who agreed. It takes courage to interrupt the venerated founder, especially when your livelihood depends on the person he's defending, and the people with whom they've built relationships.
That's 1.2 million.