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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: longer & near final version of the Precautionary Principle
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
July 24 at 2:22pm ·
Our longer & near final version of the Precautionary Principle. The web is great. We posted our paper and kept improving it just from indirectly answering criticism on twitter by integrating them in the text, and naming BS ones and erroneous reasoning "fallacies" (antifragility). Calling something a fallacy (such as the potato fallacy, or the Russian roulette fallacy) saves time and eliminates sophistry. The best is the "carpenter fallacy" which addresses the insults by biologists.
We are not adding the math appendix as it intimidates people and might cause them to stop attacking our paper .
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QIbGFzOXF5UUN3N2c/edit
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
July 24 at 2:22pm ·
Our longer & near final version of the Precautionary Principle. The web is great. We posted our paper and kept improving it just from indirectly answering criticism on twitter by integrating them in the text, and naming BS ones and erroneous reasoning "fallacies" (antifragility). Calling something a fallacy (such as the potato fallacy, or the Russian roulette fallacy) saves time and eliminates sophistry. The best is the "carpenter fallacy" which addresses the insults by biologists.
We are not adding the math appendix as it intimidates people and might cause them to stop attacking our paper .
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QIbGFzOXF5UUN3N2c/edit
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"We are not adding the math appendix as it intimidates people and might cause them to stop attacking our paper."
