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It is critical to distinguish risk from uncertainty. > "Uncertainty must be taken in a sense radically distinct from the familiar notion of Risk, from which it
by tchalla 5y ago
It is critical to distinguish risk from uncertainty.
> "Uncertainty must be taken in a sense radically distinct from the familiar notion of Risk, from which it has never been properly separated.... The essential fact is that 'risk' means in some cases a quantity susceptible of measurement, while at other times it is something distinctly not of this character; and there are far-reaching and crucial differences in the bearings of the phenomena depending on which of the two is really present and operating.... It will appear that a measurable uncertainty, or 'risk' proper, as we shall use the term, is so far different from an unmeasurable one that it is not in effect an uncertainty at all."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightian_uncertainty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightian_uncertainty
- darkerside 5y agoUnknown unknowns, versus known unknowns.