> It's not moloch. It's all health systems, even ones that are religiously oriented.
The moloch reference is a shibboleth for the rationalist community. It’s not an actual religious reference. There’s another reference to “updating” further down which is another rationalist term meaning “updating your priors”.
Huh. This gets complicated. I wasn't making an appeal to religion... my perception was that "moloch" was understood by non-religious socialist-leaning people to mean the god of money or capitalism (which seems to comport with what you're saying). But it has a separate meaning as a vengeful deity from the bronze age that demands sacrifice and which is used as an example in Abrahamicreligions for why you shouldn't worship other deities. I was pointing out that the alternative to a "moloch" health care system would be a "religious" one - by which I guess I meant a Judeo/Christian/Islamic one, but it serves a few separate meanings, like, one which isn't at its core capitalistic, or one which doesn't sacrifice children.
All I was trying to say was that the organizing ideology of such a system (healthcare) doesn't matter as much as having enough people committed to and working within the system. A capitalist version may work better than a communist one, e.g. at developing new approaches to disease, or serving more people in more tailored ways, as long as the incentive structure exists to bring enough people into the workforce so that each practitioner is not overwhelmed.
TL;DR I was playing along with the "moloch" reference, although clearly it means different things to different people.
The moloch reference is a shibboleth for the rationalist community. It’s not an actual religious reference. There’s another reference to “updating” further down which is another rationalist term meaning “updating your priors”.