stackyFACTSWe are spectacularly terrible at statistics. Zero-risk bias means we would rather completely fix a trivial, one-percent problem just to feel a false sense of perfect safety, while aggressively ignoring a massive systemic risk that has an eighty-percent chance of destroying our entire lives.
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