Open Sourcing A Disease Diagnosis
16th March 2010
There were a series of blog posts, detailing some of the details of the sickness, tests that had been done, and some of the general questions that the doctors were trying to zone in on. It even included a list of possible diagnoses, crossing out the ones that had been ruled out. Relatively quickly, two separate readers came up with an obscure medical journal article from South Korea from 1994 “about heptatic mega-hemagionas and FUOs,” which apparently quite accurately described the situation.
An elegant illustration of Hayek’s dictum that none of us knows as much as all of us, which he thought was the ultimate proof that markets were superior to central planning.