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A conversation between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram (July 2, 2021) [Part 2]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Problem in Medicine Is, You Know, It Is Not Repeatable

medicine is a fundamentally non repeatable field. It's to have something where you can then say, there can't be any theory in medicine. And so what you have to do is just, well, let's just do the clenical trial and see what happens. But statistics provides a veneer of science in an even worse way than some other kinds of sort of scientific predictions work. I think basing stuff on statistical results is even more hopeless than basing things on them. There exists a very rigorous way to work with statistics but requires a little more er, no, not relying on these metrics taken, ics and stufh like that.

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