Medicine is for the very ill, never the healthy. In, there is the assertion that there has been practically NOTHING made by humans to "improve" on na… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Medicine is for the very ill, never the healthy. In, there is the assertion that there has been practically NOTHING made by humans to "improve" on nature or help with shortcuts that did not end up harming with UNSEEN side effects.

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About Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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[A]ge is beauty. ...[M]y instinct is to value distilled thought over newer thinking, regardless of its apparent sophistication—another reason to accumulate the hoary volumes by my bedside... For an idea to have survived so many cycles is indicative of its relative fitness. Noise, at least some noise, was filtered out. ...[P]rogress means that some new information is better than past information, not that the average of new information will supplant past information...

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