Vladimir_Nesov comments on TED Talks for Less Wrong - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 May 2009 09:58:47AM *  0 points [-]

Laurie Garrett: What can we learn from the 1918 flu pandemic?

An interesting theme in this talk is repeated acknowledgment of how little we know about even simplest facts (for example, whether washing your hands is at all useful against flu pandemic). The discipline of not making up unwarranted certainty.