Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Precautionary Principle and Genetically Modified Organisms
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Silent Risk Is a Book on the Incerto in Certos
The book is effectively a mathematiation of the incerto in certos. It has all the mathematical therems and back up the tiings. The great doubt of it was tha. L you're talking about, example of there can be extinction on an island. There cand be a cutting shot on a continent, exactly. Canbea local root. So nature so so much healthier for people to defalt to fat tails and provise the evidence of sintaledness than the other one.
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