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By Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Response | 2012 Annual Question | Edge

Hormesis Is Redundancy Nature is the master statistician and probabilist. It follows a certain logic based on layers of redundancies, as a central risk-management approach. Nature builds with extra spare parts (two kidneys), and extra capacity in many, many things (say lungs, neural system, arterial apparatus, etc.), while design by humans tend to be spare, […]

Nassim Taleb – The Russia Forum 2011

You can see the entire talk here. Here’s the audio NNT’s portion of the panel. NNT at The Russia Forum 2011. http://blackswanreport.com/media/Nassim-Taleb-Moscow-2011.mp3