The hard part is accepting that things work and we don’t really understand the gaps of why they do.
Humans prefer certainty, but computers can’t even do math with certainty which basically everyone misunderstands.
We don’t understand anaesthesia properly - if you had an accident and were going to lose a limb as a result, would you want to forego it? No.
Assessing risk is humanity’s biggest weakness. It’s how COVID became what it was - Ioannidis (Stanford) put out a paper in March 2020 shitcanning the mortality rate and got zero coverage, he said it was about 0.05% to 1% but caveated elderly populations were the majority. He got shitcanned as a result.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.20054361v2
He basically showed that if you were not a senior, COVID was as dangerous as driving.
Nobody shits themselves when they get behind the wheel so this message couldn’t be allowed to reach the public.
Anybody looking for a perfect model is either a leftist, or a moron; but I repeat myself.
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