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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Precautionary Principle and Genetically Modified Organisms

Jan 19, 2015
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
The Precautionary Principle in Decision Making
01:34 • 3min
3
The Risk of Ruin
04:11 • 2min
4
Is There a Difference Between Science and Science?
05:45 • 4min
5
Isn't the Expert of Experts?
09:45 • 2min
6
Is There a Difference Between Harm and Ruin?
12:13 • 4min
7
Why Are Fat Tails So Important?
15:47 • 2min
8
Is There a Risk of Ruin?
17:25 • 3min
9
The Value at Risk in the Financial Crisis That's Working
20:12 • 2min
10
What Happens in the End?
22:28 • 2min
11
Scientism and False Claims
24:07 • 4min
12
Is It Good or Bad for You?
28:26 • 5min
13
What's the Real What Is the Scientific Evidence?
32:58 • 3min
14
The Nuclear, You Cannot Invoke the Precaution Piscip
36:12 • 2min
15
Is Nature a Thin Tail Process or a Fat Tail Process?
38:11 • 2min
16
Silent Risk Is a Book on the Incerto in Certos
40:26 • 2min
17
Is Fat Tail Than Sintail?
42:25 • 2min
18
What Is the Precautionary Principle?
44:40 • 2min
19
Exercise Precaution Principle in Local Form
46:32 • 2min
20
How Much Care Should You Take?
48:08 • 2min
21
What Is the Fat Tail of Sharks in San Diego?
50:03 • 2min
22
The Probability of Dying Isn't Going to Change.
52:30 • 3min
23
Ae G M O, Calld, Golden Rice
55:24 • 2min
24
Is There a Silent Risk?
57:29 • 3min
25
Nosim, You're Just a Flanner
01:00:28 • 2min
26
Is Artificial Intelligence a Paradox?
01:02:11 • 2min
27
Can We Stop the Panoa?
01:03:58 • 2min
28
Econ Talk, Part of the Library of Economics and Liberty
01:05:28 • 2min