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Our risk estimation brains are based on the ancestral environment. Technology multiplies impacts.


Okay, so some part of our risk estimation ability comes from risk-evaluation-specific heuristics that have developed in ancestral environment. But how much impact does this have on the result of any serious evaluation? How easily do the ancestral parts get overridden by rational correction or outright calculation?




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